Botz-en-Mauges
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local community | Mauges-sur-Loire | |
region | Pays de la Loire | |
Department | Maine-et-Loire | |
Arrondissement | Cholet | |
Coordinates | 47 ° 18 ′ N , 1 ° 0 ′ W | |
Post Code | 49110 | |
Former INSEE code | 49034 | |
Incorporation | December 15, 2015 | |
status | Commune déléguée | |
Saint-Gilles Church |
Botz-en-Mauges is a town and commune Déléguée in the French commune Mauges-sur-Loire with 833 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Maine-et-Loire in the region of Pays de la Loire . The inhabitants are called Botzéens .
With effect from December 15, 2015, the municipalities of Beausse , Botz-en-Mauges , Bourgneuf-en-Mauges , La Chapelle-Saint-Florent , Le Marillais , Le Mesnil-en-Vallée , Montjean-sur-Loire , La Pommeraye , Saint-Florent-le-Vieil , Saint-Laurent-de-la-Plaine and Saint-Laurent-du-Mottay from the former Communauté de communes du Canton de Saint-Florent-le-Vieil to a Commune nouvelle called Mauges- sur-Loire merged. The municipality of Botz-en-Mauges belonged to the Arrondissement Cholet and the canton of La Pommeraye (until 2015: canton of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil ).
geography
Botz-en-Mauges is located about 28 kilometers north-northwest of Cholet and about 38 kilometers west-southwest of Angers in the Loire Valley in the Mauges region .
population
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
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Residents | 966 | 955 | 871 | 850 | 760 | 666 | 769 | 816 |
Attractions
- Saint-Gilles Church
- Bas-Plessis Castle with a park on the border with the neighboring municipality of Chaudron-en-Mauges
Personalities
- Ernestine Chassebœuf (1910–2005), probably a fictional activist and letter writer
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de Maine-et-Loire . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-117-1 , pp. 1044-1046.