Beaupréau

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Beaupréau
Beaupréau coat of arms
Beaupréau (France)
Beaupréau
local community Beaupréau-en-Mauges
region Pays de la Loire
Department Maine-et-Loire
Arrondissement Cholet
Coordinates 47 ° 12 ′  N , 1 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 12 ′  N , 1 ° 0 ′  W
Post Code 49600
Former INSEE code 49023
Incorporation December 15, 2015
status Commune déléguée

Beaupréau Castle

Beaupréau is a small town and a former French commune with 7,220 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Maine-et-Loire in the region of Pays de la Loire . It belonged to the arrondissement of Cholet and the canton of Beaupréau .

With effect from December 15, 2015, the municipalities of Beaupréau , Andrezé , La Chapelle-du-Genêt , Gesté , Jallais , La Jubaudière , Le Pin-en-Mauges , La Poitevinière , Saint-Philbert-en-Mauges and Villedieu-la- Blouère merged from the former Communauté de communes du Center-Mauges to form a Commune nouvelle with the name Beaupréau-en-Mauges . The formerly independent municipalities have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative seat is in Beaupréau.

location

Beaupréau is located about 52 kilometers (driving distance) southwest of Angers and about 52 kilometers east of Nantes on the north bank of the river Èvre in the Mauges landscape . The town of Cholet , which played an important role during the Vendée uprising , is about 20 kilometers to the southeast.

Population development

year 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006
Residents 4,955 5,428 5,782 5,937 6.217 6,456

economy

In the Middle Ages, Beaupréau was the economic center of the agricultural area. In the 1980s, business parks were designated outside the city, creating new jobs.

history

In 1998 a pre-Roman torso of a statue was accidentally discovered, which was a little too hastily referred to as Dame de Beaupréau (see web link), although it is probably a male figure. Be that as it may, the find is an indication of the long history of settlement in the area, which continued into Roman and medieval times.

During the French Revolution , the Vendée uprising took place in the area.

Attractions

Beaupréau - Notre-Dame Church
  • The first castle was built in the 1st half of the 11th century under Fulko Nerra of Anjou as part of the border fortifications to the Breton market . In the Middle Ages it belonged to the Scépeaux family who owned it in the 14th-16th centuries. In the 19th century, its heirs, the Dukes of Blacas, rebuilt it into an imposing Renaissance castle . In 1958 it was converted into a clinic which closed in 1994.
    One of the first battles in the Vendée War took place here on March 13, 1793 . Cathelineau blew up a division of the National Guard and captured a cannon.
  • The Hôtel du Sénéchal dates from different construction periods (16th to 19th centuries). It was once the seat of the governor of the French king.
  • A wash house ( lavoir ) - supposedly from the 16th century - has also been preserved.
  • The façade, completed in 1863 in neo-Gothic style, and the stained glass from 1875–1895 of the Notre-Dame church have been recognized as a monument historique since 2006 . From 1875 to 1901, the artistic glazing was created by the glass painter's workshop Ely, initially in Nantes and later in Kassel-Wehlheiden.
  • A 12.5-kilometer circular hiking trail (see web link) leads to some attractions in the area.

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de Maine-et-Loire . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-117-1 , pp. 311-323.

Web links

Commons : Beaupréau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ adoption DRCL / BCL / 2015-57 prefecture on the formation of the commune nouvelle Beaupréau-en-Mauges from 24 September 2015
  2. ↑ Georg v. Alten (Hrsg.): Handbook for Army and Fleet , Volume 5, Deutsches Verlagshaus Bong & Co., Berlin 1913, p. 130
  3. ↑ Église Notre-Dame, Beaupréau in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  4. ↑ Götz J. Pfeiffer: "owes the foundation of this art industry to the Ely family". Ely family and glass painting workshop in Kassel, Nantes and Wehlheiden . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies . tape 121 , 2016, p. 175-200 .