Paimpol
Paimpol ( Pempoull Breton ) is a commune with 7463 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011) in the department of Côtes- d'Armor in Brittany. It belongs to the district of Saint -Brieuc, administrative headquarters is (Chef -lieu ) of the Canton of Paimpol and a member of the Association of Municipalities Communauté de communes Paimpol Goélo. The Breton place name meaning " At the far end of the water surface ."
Geography, location, internal structure and connectivity
Paimpol is on the Channel coast, about 40 km northwest of Saint- Brieuc and 35 km east of Lannion and Perros -Guirec. Neighboring municipalities are ( clockwise, starting in the southeast ) Plouézec, Kerfot, Plourivo, Lézardrieux and Paimpol.
Paimpol is located in the region of strong tidal differences ( tidal range up to about 12 meters), so the Bay ( Anse de Paimpol ), which connects the city with the sea, regularly dry falls to a small trickle. The fishing and leisure port - one of the most important in the region - therefore can not be run continuously; of sufficient water level in the two docks is provided by a lock. These flow conditions off the coast also uses a small tidal power plant today. In the leisure port of quinic, a stream flows.
The municipal area covers 23.6 km ² and reaches inland a maximum height of 86 m above sea level. The volcanic origin of the area shows, for example, on the headland of Guilben where pillow lava and rhyolites indicate a very ancient volcanism. Southeast of the town, in the direction of Sainte -Barbe, are the Vulkanitfelder of Plouézec.
Paimpol is located on the coastal route accompanying Departmental D 786, which runs from east to Saint-Malo/Dinard in Morlaix and Brest. A 6 km long access road connects Paimpol with the northern headland of Pointe de l' Arcouest, from where there is a ferry service to Brehat. About one-lane regional railway line of the TER Bretagne, the city is connected to Guingamp and from there to the national rail network; this route was formerly part of the narrow gauge network of the Réseau Breton.
History
Located in the medieval Breton County Goélo and mentioned under the name Penpol ( 1184 ) or Penpul ( 1198 ), was born in 1202 the Premonstratensian Abbey of Beauport in the area of the later Kérity.
With the advent of fishing for cod in the early 15th century, the importance Paimpols grew as a fishing port; in 1700 there was even a special type of fishing vessels Goélette Paimpolaise (French for Paimpol'scher saver ), developed and built. The fleets fished large parts of the North Atlantic up off the Canadian coast, from the 19th century in Icelandic waters, and under the toughest working conditions for the teams; about Pierre Loti has written 1886 Pecheur d' Islande his novel ( " Iceland Fisherman" ). 1878 was excavated in the first Paimpol harbor to protect the schooner before the stress by constantly falling dry at low water. Around 1895 suggested more than 80 saver in Paimpol to their winter quarters. During the fishing season, the Breton fishermen at that time had their base in the Icelandic Fjarðabyggð; there are still a French museum, and the street names are bilingual (Icelandic / French).
Prior to the French Revolution took place in the late summer of 1787, as in other places of Brittany in Paimpol to protests by members of the Third Estate, due to the catastrophic food supply. 1790 acquired Paimpol and Plounez municipality status. The city was before the Second World War to the centers of the Breton nationalism and the movement for state recognition of the Breton language. In 1960 from the merger of the towns Paimpol, Plounez and Kérity the church in its present extent. Since 2008, Jean -Yves de Chaisemartin (initially UDF, now PRV ) mayor.
Demographics
The sharp increase in population in 1962 is due mainly Paimpols merger with two neighboring communities.
Economy
Paimpol today has significant importance for tourism, land side. Than eastern entrance to the Côte de Granit Rose and water side due to its leisure and pleasure boat harbor, which was in 2008 awarded the Blue Flag The local infrastructure has adapted this development by catering and accommodation sector, an inner-city RV park, retail and boating equipment stores. Even the famous sailing school Les Glénans has one of its five French bases in Paimpol. A portion of the port areas can be used as winter quarters for more than 100 smaller vessels. In the summer season runs a steam engine museum train pulled (La vapeur du Trieux ) to Pontrieux.
In contrast, the importance of traditional industries has declined. Fishing boats and fish market are now partially migrated to neighboring Paimpol ( Loguivy -de- la -Mer and Pors Even ). In Paimpol, there are still small shipyards, as well as oyster farms. In the rural parts of the municipality vegetables are grown, both in free-range as well as in greenhouse crops (especially tomatoes).
In Paimpol since 1877, a regional weekly newspaper, La Presse d'Armor appears.
Culture and twinning
In the presence of Paimpol attracts many artists, especially painters, sculptors and photographers, to working in the community and exhibit their work. Since 1989 Paimpol organized in the port area in August of each odd-numbered year the three-day Festival du chant de marin ( " Festival of the sailor song "); then the entire port for other uses is blocked. The festival is recently open to the world music. Since 2003, for example, musicians such as Idir, Denez Prigent, Carlos Núñez, Dan Ar Braz, Rokia Traoré and Johnny Clegg are occurred.
City partnerships currently in place with Grundarfjörður ( Iceland ), Romsey ( Great Britain) and Vermilion (United States).
Attractions
- Tower of the old church of Paimpol
- The chapels of Notre- Dame de Kergrist and Lanvignec
- The mansions ( manors ) in Kerloury and Grand Pontébar
- Used the Musée de la Mer ( Maritime Museum ) in a previously dried for storage cod ( sécherie de Morues ) Building
- The former cider ( Cidre ) Marec ( built in 1892 )
- The former slaughterhouse, now a social center
- About 2 km outside the town center ( on the territory of the former municipality Kérity ) the Abbaye de Beauport, a monument historique
Sons and daughters Paimpols
- Gwilherm Berthou Kerverziou ( Guillaume Berthou ) ( b. 1908 ), poet and Breton nationalist
- Armand Dayot (* 1851), art critic and minister under Léon Gambetta
- Étienne Didot ( b. 1983 ), football player
- Baptiste Jacob ( * 1858), professor of philosophy
- Nathalie Lancien (born 1970 ), track cyclist and Olympic gold medalist
- Gabriel Le Bras (* 1891), Professor of Law and Canon Law
- Jean Ollivier ( born 1925 ), comic book writer and journalist