Pommereuil
Encyclopedia
Pommereuil or Le Pommereuil is a commune
in the Nord department in northern France
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on June 24, 1967, a relatively rare occurrence in France.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Nord department in northern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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History
The village and surrounding woods (Bois l'Évêque) were heavily damaged by a tornadoTornado
A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...
on June 24, 1967, a relatively rare occurrence in France.
Heraldry
Monuments
- The church, Église Saint-Michel, was built during the XVIIth Century and has a fortified tower.