Évrecy
Évrecy is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France situated on the River Guigne.
History
World war 2
The commune was almost entirely destroyed on June 15, 1944, by 223 Royal Air Force Lancaster and 100 Halifax heavy bombers, with 14 Mosquito light bombers. At Évrecy the headquarters of the Wehrmacht’s Twelfth Panzer Division was destroyed, and 130 out of 430 civilians were killed, the highest proportion in any community during the Battle of Normandy.Geography
The river La Guigne and the stream Ruisseau de Verdun are the only watercourses which flow through the commune.Population
Points of interest
National heritage sites
- Église Notre-Dame a thirteenth century church listed as a Monument historique in 1927.
Twin towns – sister cities
- Gaukönigshofen, Germany