Douarnenez

Douarnenez is a municipality in western France in the department of Finistère in the Brittany region.

Geography

Douarnenez is located in the west of the historical region of Cornwall, about 25 km north- west of Quimper. Douarnenez has 14,815 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011) and an area of ​​24.94 km ².

History

Due to its sheltered location, storm the place has already served the Romans as a port facing the difficult passage to Britain. In addition, here also " garum " was established, a fish sauce that was used throughout the Roman Empire for seasoning food.

Over the centuries, the city developed into an important fishing port. Almost all men and boys went in single-mast boats for fishing; the average team consisted of three men. There were hundreds of boats that caught both in the lake and their mostly red-brown with tan sails hoisted. The teams remained under certain circumstances, depending on the fishing ability for several days at sea and then lived on a piece of bread, entrained water and by-catch, which was cooked on a small stove in the boat. In the sun, wind or rain it protected only canvas clothing, trousers and wide top, which had been made ​​watertight by means of tree resin itself partly as the sails. Not all had wooden shoes, many were barefoot. The traditional marketed in the factories were fishes tuna and sardine. The fishing was supplemented by meager agriculture (cabbage, potatoes, cereals) on very small plots.

1641 led the Jesuit priest Julien Maunoir in Douarnenez by his first mission.

At Douarnenez prosperity came in the 19th century, when the invention of canned allowed the sale of fish in remote regions. The most important role was played by the sardine, their canned there was a French monopoly. By the middle of the century in the city of 40 fish factories had settled, in which mainly women and girls found work. As in 1880 suddenly failed to the shoals of sardines, this led to a depression with poverty and mass unemployment. The female population of trying to earn with lace and crochet, which were awarded to order by factories, livelihood, others reinforced the traditional manufacture of iodine blocks of algae ( in a well- thought-out furnaces, which are present on the shoreline today) that are then sold to pharmaceutical factories. With new fishing techniques, larger boats and thanks to the fact that after 20 years, the shoals of sardines again sought out the coast, the fishing industry was able to recover. Today Douarnenez is the sixth most important fishing ports of France. There are still one of the old fish canneries, which sold its gourmet sardines in Germany.

The identifier of the home port of the boat hulls is " TC".

In partially artificially held under flood "Port Rhu " there is a museum on the subject of local fisheries and Seehandelsgeschichte, wooden sailing ships work, and the international development of boat building, from the dugout to the deep-sea sailing ship. There were international sailing ship meetings in the 90s.

Economy

Douarnenez is a fishing port. Previously, sardines and tuna are fished mainly - today mackerel, cod, skate, Peter fish, lobster, crab and shrimp. Mainly tourists are attracted by the offered here thalassotherapy and the romantic coastal high paths.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Émile Chevé, music theorist and music teacher
  • Bob Sinclar, French house DJ and producer
  • Jérémy Kapone, French actor
  • Jérémy Bescond, French cyclist
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