Quimper
Quimper, Breton Kemper, is a town in Brittany. It is the prefecture ( capital ) of the département of Finistère. The city has 63 235 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ), the French quimpérois and bret. are called kemperiz. The name " Quimper " comes from the Breton kemper and means confluence, as the city at the confluence of Jet, Steir and Odet was built.
The capital of Cornwall was once called Quimper -Corentin ( bret. Kemper Kaorentin ), named after Saint Corentin, the first bishop of the city. During the French Revolution the city in Montagne -sur- Odet was renamed and is now called just yet Quimper. Quimper is famous for its porcelain manufacture. For four centuries, the Faience be fully formed and decorated by hand here in the faience workshops in the old tradition. The German partner city is the North Rhine-Westphalian Remscheid since 1971.
Coat of arms
Description: In blue a silver ram with golden arms with a silver shield ermine head.
Attractions
All dominant and highly visible, sticking the pointed towers of the " Cathédrale Saint Corentin " about the city of Quimper. The construction began in 1240 but was only completed in 1856 with the erection of the church spiers. The special feature of this church is inclined to the left of the choir. You probably wanted to avoid a grave chapel, which should not be demolished by the construction, but a proper explanation for the " crooked choir " does not exist.
Old town of Quimper
Cathédrale St Corentin 2010
Economy and infrastructure
The airport Quimper Cornwall is located eight kilometers west of Quimper.
Sports
The most famous sports club in the city is over 100 years as Stade Quimpérois known Quimper Kerfeunteun FC, the men's soccer team has played for nearly two decades in the second highest league. The women's team was even briefly to the highest class.
Twin Cities
- Sântămăria - Orlea, Romania
- Ourense, Spain
- Remscheid, Germany
- Limerick, Ireland
Sons and daughters of the town
- Jean Hardouin, Jesuit, philologist and theologian
- Charles Hernu, French politician
- Max Jacob, French poet, painter and writer
- Corentin Louis Kervran, scientists
- René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec, the inventor of the stethoscope
- Émile Lemoine, a French mathematician and engineer
- Jacques Villeglé, French artist and co-founder of the New Realism
- Jessica Cérival, putter
- Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, artist siblings
- Diane Fleri, Italian - French actress
Saints and patron saints of the city
Many stories are told by the Holy Corentinus, patron of the city. Particularly strange is the famous fish meal of Corentinus, symbol of the inexhaustible, food -giving sea: Daily swam him a fish, of which the undemanding Holy ate so much until he was full. The gnawed rest he threw back into the water, and the next day the fish was whole again and offered again for consumption.