Larmor-Baden
Larmor -Baden ( Breton: An Arvor -Baden ) is a commune with 844 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Morbihan in the Brittany region.
Location
Larmor- Baden is located at the southern tip of a widely extending into the Gulf of Morbihan peninsula. The village is located about 13 km ( driving distance ) southeast of Auray and about 15 kilometers southwest of Vannes.
Demographics
Economy
Since the end of the 19th century oyster farm is operated in the Gulf of Morbihan, where now only the culture of juvenile mussels plays an important economic role. Still, there are about 20 small farms that after the - are dodged oysters crisis in 1973/ 4 Japanese and Pacific oyster - caused by parasitic infestation. In the years after 2006, however, there was again an oyster crisis in France. Larmor -Baden had formerly a small fishing harbor; now the town and its surroundings are considered good places for fishing. The surrounding area is used for agriculture.
The climatically stable southern Brittany with its many coves and sandy beaches enticed before the second World War, many French holidaymakers. Since the 1960s, the importance of tourism - particularly the sailing tourism - the economic life more and more. Also in the area of Larmor -Baden ( Locmariaquer, Saint- Philibert, La Trinité- sur -Mer, Carnac, Quiberon Peninsula ) there are many sandy beaches and marinas as well as smaller inns and large hotels.
History
As can be inferred from the many significant Großsteinbauten, the area of the Gulf of Morbihan must have played an important role in the era of megalithic culture, the fact of importance is that many older Großmenhire in the period around 4200 BC - probably intentionally - were overturned; the resulting fragments were (partly as orthostat ) recycled as cover plates in the dolmens. Before the entrance to the Table of Marchand and the Dolmen of Kercadoret was - as some of the few artifacts from the Bronze Age - a bronze ax or spear - and arrowheads found in bronze; was likely to find in this era ( and perhaps earlier ), a conversion of the Dolmen instead. In the Middle Ages belonged to the Larmor Baden; by separation only in 1857.
Attractions
Gavrinish Island
Other
- Also in Larmor -Baden itself has a by a mound ( tumulus ) INDOOR stone grave ( Dolmen ) from the megalithic age. It was recognized in 1960 as a monument historique.
- After the independence of the community in 1857, initially a small chapel ( Saint- Eulalie ) was built. The nave Neo-Romanesque church of Notre -Dame was only consecrated in 1880 and has - a rarity in northern France - a bell tower on the west facade. Some (art) objects of great local color are in their ( ex- votos ): A figure of Mary ( Notre- Dame de Larmor ) holds a three-master in her left hand while the right is based on an anchor; a small panel painting commemorates the deliverance of a ship's crew during a storm in 1878.
- Two wells and a wash-house ( Lavoir ) are about a mile northeast of the village on a meadow (Le Douet de Locqueltas ). Not far away two thatched farmhouses are ( Fermes ).
- A marsh and bird sanctuary ( Marais de Pen en Toul ) is located about two kilometers northeast of Larmor -Baden.
- With rented boats can be seen on one of the many islands in the Gulf of Morbihan ( Ile de Berder, He Lannic, Ile -aux -Moines ) go out.
- There are opportunities for walks and hikes along the coast or in the hinterland everywhere.
Environment
The megaliths at Carnac (29 km west ) and Locmariaquer (26 kilometers to the west ) and the city of Vannes definitely worth a visit. Also on the opposite side of the Gulf of Morbihan in Arzon there are several monuments of the megalithic age.