Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine
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| region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Loire-Atlantique | |
| Arrondissement | Nantes | |
| Canton | Clisson | |
| Community association | Clisson Sèvre et Maine Agglo | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 5 ′ N , 1 ° 24 ′ W | |
| height | 2-56 m | |
| surface | 14.58 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,936 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 270 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 44140 | |
| INSEE code | 44002 | |
| Website | www.aigrefeuillesurmaine.com | |
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Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine ( Breton : Kelenneg-ar-Mewan ; Gallo : Aègerfoeylh ) is a French municipality with 3936 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Loire-Atlantique in the Region Pays de la Loire ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Nantes and the canton of Clisson (until 2015: canton of Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine ). The inhabitants are called Aigrefeuillais or Agrifoliens .
geography
Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine is located about 19 kilometers south-southeast of Nantes on the Maine River . Here in the vineyards Gros Plant du Pays Nantais and Muscadet Sevre et Maine especially is Muscadet produced. Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Château-Thébaud in the north and north-west, Maisdon-sur-Sèvre in the north and north-east, Saint-Lumine-de-Clisson in the east, Remouillé in the south and south-east, La Planche in the south and south-west as well as Montbert to the west.
The former National Route 137 runs through the municipality .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
| Residents | 1,076 | 1,280 | 1,489 | 1,829 | 1,987 | 2.152 | 2,564 | 3,414 |
Attractions
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption church, built from 1898 to 1900, Monument historique since 2007 (see also: List of Monuments historiques in Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine )
- Saint-Sauveur Chapel, built in 1714, rebuilt in 1804
- Calvaire
- Park Le Plessis with the remains of the former castle from the 19th century
- La Guidore castle and orangery from the 18th century
- 19th century bourgeois house Savarière
- Watermill
- Ruin of a windmill
- Wash houses
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Loire-Atlantique . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-040-X , pp. 25-36.
