Ploemeur
Ploemeur, also Ploëmeur ( in Breton Plañvour ), is a commune with 17 747 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011) in the department of Morbihan in the Brittany region. It belongs to Arrondissement Lorient, is the administrative center of the canton Ploemeur and member of the Association of Municipalities Cap l' Orient agglomÃ.
Geography, location and connections
The place is located 4 km west of Lorient, 6 km north- west of Larmor -Plage and 8 km southeast of Guidel- Plages on Route Departmental D 162 The city center is located in the hinterland of the Côte des Megaliths. With Lomener, Le Pérello and Fort Bloqué includes several coastal village about Ploemeur. To the east of Ter, a small tributary Blavet, the municipality limits. A dedicated rail link has not Ploemeur. On the northern part of the municipality is the Airport of Lorient.
Demographics
Ploemeur 1901 to Keryado ( now a district of Lorient ) and 1925 decreased by Larmor -Plage.
History and Economics
As in most coastal areas of the region played fishing and processing in Ploemeur an important economic role. In the summer of 1896 it was one of the centers of brittany nationwide strike in the sector. From the beginning of the 20th century the rich kaolin deposits were mined on the municipality in a quarry. 1920, there was also the light bath Kerpape, which was expanded after the Second World War to a rehabilitation center for the disabled; in this device, the European Championships were repeatedly discharged in a wheelchair basketball during the 1970s. The expansion of the civilian and military parts ( naval aviation ) used the airport as well as the immediate vicinity of Lorient resulted especially in the last quarter of the 20th century to the fact that Ploemeur developed into a rapidly growing " bedroom community ".
Attractions
- Château de Soye (18th century)
- Château du Ter
- Fort Bloqué
- Church of St. Pierre ( 12th century )
- Chapel Notre- Dame de la Garde ( 15th century ), Sainte -Anne ( 16th century ), Saint- Thual, Saint- Maude, Saint- Léonard (all 17th century ), Sainte -Anne ( 16th century ) and Saints -Simon- et- Jew ( 17th century ), each with statues of saints Ninnoc.
- Rectory (18th century)
- Menhirs ( Saint Maude, Courégant, Kerroc'h, Pen -Palud )
- Dolmen ( Cruguellic, Ar Roc'h Penher )
Twinning
Cities partnerships with the Belgian municipality Diksmuide, the Irish Fermoy and Nowa Dęba (Poland).
Sons and daughters Ploemeurs
- Henri Dupuy de Lome ( * 1816), a naval architect and politician
- Yoann Gourcuff ( born 1986 ), football player
- Élodie Guégan (* 1985), a middle distance runner
- Louis Le Hunsec ( b. 1878 ), Bishop ( Holy Ghost ) of the Archdiocese of Dakar