Brasparts

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Brasparts
Brasparzh
Brasparts coat of arms
Brasparts (France)
Brasparts
region Brittany
Department Finistère
Arrondissement Chateaulin
Canton Carhaix-Plouguer
Community association Monts d'Arrée Communauté
Coordinates 48 ° 18 ′  N , 3 ° 57 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′  N , 3 ° 57 ′  W
height 39-330 m
surface 46.69 km 2
Residents 1,024 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 22 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 29190
INSEE code 29016

Notre-Dame et Saint-Tugen church

Brasparts ( Breton Brasparzh ) is a French commune in the Finistère department with 1024 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).

location

The place is located in the west of Brittany in the Armorique Regional Nature Park ( Parc naturel régional d'Armorique ), at the foothills of the Monts d'Arrée ridge in a hilly and wooded area. Quimper is 36 kilometers south, Brest 40 km northwest and Paris about 450 km east (as the crow flies ).

history

In World War II Brasparts became known when it in the wake of the August 16, 1944 Battle for Brest a German commando operation led by the paratroop lieutenant Erich Lepkowski succeeded, about 130 paratroopers , who were held in the village school, from the captivity of the Forces françaises de l'intérieur to free. Three Resistance fighters died in the fighting in Brasparts .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2017
Residents 1591 1469 1189 1115 1003 1013 1028 1024
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

See: List of Monuments historiques in Brasparts

traffic

At Le Faou and Châteaulin , the next exits are on the expressway E 60 (Brest- Nantes ) and at Landivisiau and Morlaix on the E 50 (Brest- Rennes ). There are also the next regional train stations on the mostly parallel railway lines.

Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris.

The nearest regional airports are the Aéroport de Brest Bretagne near Brest and the Aéroport de Lorient Bretagne Sud near Lorient .

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 893-896.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steven J. Zaloga: Brittany 1944: Hitler's Final Defenses in France . Bloomsbury, London 2018, pp. 36f.
  2. ↑ Roger Jézéquel, 1954, in Brasparts, 16 août 1944 , accessed on August 11, 2019.