Inzinzac-Lochrist
Inzinzac -Lochrist ( Zinzag - Lokrist in Breton ) is a commune with 6129 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011) in the department of Morbihan in the Brittany region. It belongs to Arrondissement Lorient, on the Canton Hennebont and community association Cap l' Orient agglomÃ.
Geography, location and Outline
Inzinzac -Lochrist is located approximately ten kilometers north east of Lorient, in the southwest almost at sea level, further inland hilly municipality rises to 111 meters above the sea on. The Blavet River forms the southern and eastern boundary of the parish; on the southern shore lies the neighboring town of Hennebont.
The 44.7 km ² large municipality comprises the towns of Inzinzac, Lochrist (of locus of Christ), Penquesten ( Breton named for " chestnut crowns ," in allusion to the adjacent forêt de Trémelin ) and Kerglaw together and has an average population density of 126 inhabitants / km ². She is 24 ( direction Pontivy ) and N 165 ( highway between Nantes and Brest) straßenverkehrlich well connected via the nearby, but not extending to the municipality Routes National north to the distant regions of Brittany.
Mayor since 2001, the Socialist Jean -Pierre Bageot ( term of office until 2014 ).
Coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a crowned Phoenix, located in front of an ermine fur ( Hermione is the central symbol of Brittany ) rises out of the fire. It is framed by two blue boxes that represent the Blavet. The coat of arms symbolizes the two main wealth of the community, namely the river water and the fire - but now extinct - furnaces Forges d' Hennebont.
History
In the 19th century, excavated in the area of the municipality axes suggest that there has taken place already in the 5th century BC, a Celtic settlement. Between 1070 and 1080 a Christian church was built on the remains of a partial reconstruction was built in 1928, the église Saint- Pierre. The parish was in the 12th century to the reign Kémenét - hebö and from 1327 to the fiefdom of the Lords of Léon.
Opened in 1860 at the time of 2,200 inhabitants populated Inzinzac -Lochrist Forges d' Hennebont, a hardware factory which mainly sheets for preserves, particularly for edible fish, produced and soon became the largest employer in the region. For its first 250 workers, the company built in Kerglaw a housing development. Production increased from 750 tonnes ( 1861) to 10,860 tons of tinplate ( 1888). Mid-1930s was achieved with 42,000 tons a climax; Forges busy at this time about 3,000 people, and to a total of 21 acres along the Blavet over two kilometers. After the Second World War began the decline of the company, the modernization of arrears to the big competitors such as Usinor and Sollac had; In 1963 it saved only government intervention in the bankruptcy. Three years later joined the Forges d' Hennebont finally its doors and put the last 600 workers are free.
A part of the former curtilage is today an industrial history museum ( Écomusée Industriel des Forges d' Inzinzac -Lochrist ).
Demographics
Attractions
- , Reported Dolmen du Bünz, stone buildings of the Nordic Megalitharchitektur as a monument historique
- Parish Church of Notre Dame de la Victoire in the district Penquesten
Sport and Leisure
In Inzinzac -Lochrist the football club U.S. Montagnarde is located; the amateur club applies since the 1980s as one of the country's most successful " favorites terror " in the French Cup competition. Its home games he carries out in Lochrist at the Stade Mane Braz. The history of this club is with the closely linked since the 1930s, the Forges d' Hennebont, and his players are referred to the 21st century as les Forgerons ( " blacksmith ").
The valley of the Blavet surmounted a happy -used by climbers rock, the chaise de diable ( "Devil's Chair" ). On the river every year is a kayak from the local club CLPI Canoë organized 24 -hour races.