Camlez

Camlez Kamlez
region	Brittany
Department	Cotes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Lannion
Canton	Tréguier
Community association	Lannion-Trégor Communauté
Coordinates	48 ° 47 ′  N , 3 ° 18 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′  N , 3 ° 18 ′  W
height	17-106 m
surface	11.66 km 2
Residents	888 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	76 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	22450
INSEE code	22028
Website	http://www.camlez.fr/

Camlez ( Breton : Kamlez ) is a French municipality with 888 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Côtes-d'Armor in the region of Brittany . It is part of the Lannion arrondissement and the canton of Tréguier . The residents call themselves Camlézien (ne) .

geography

Camlez is about 12 kilometers northeast of Lannion . In addition to the village of Camlez, the municipality also includes the hamlets of La Gare and Saint-Nicolas northwest of Camlez. There are also numerous scattered settlements and individual farms within the community. The eastern boundary of the municipality is formed by the Guindy River and one of its tributaries. Another tributary is the Ruisseau du Roudour , which flows into it from the left in the municipality of Camlez and forms part of the southern municipal boundary.

Neighboring communities

The community has a total of seven neighboring communities. Namely Coatréven, Kermaria-Sulard, Minihy-Tréguier, Penvénan, Plouguiel, Trélévern and Trévou-Tréguignec.

Trévou-Tréguignec	Penvénan	Penvénan Plouguiel
Kermaria-Sulard Trélévern		Plouguiel
Coatréven Kermaria-Sulard	Coatréven	Minihy-Tréguier

history

Finds show a settlement since the Neolithic. A 4 m high menhir in Launay clearly shows this. Two clearly visible mounds of earth from the 10th and 11th centuries in Croas-Husto and Kerham indicate small fortifications. In the Middle Ages the community belonged to various feudal lords and until 1790 formed a parish in the diocese of Tréguier.

Population development

Between 1793 and 1821 the population grew strongly. In the following decades up to 1872 it fluctuated - apart from an upward swing in 1866 - around values ​​of 1200 to 1300 inhabitants. This was followed by a sustained gradual decline in the number of residents within a century to the low point in 1975 (1872–1975: -52.7%). Since then, the population has grown steadily and is now just under 900 people (1975–2013: + 52.6%).

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851	1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
956	1,040	1.011	1,191	1.108	1,252	1,241	1,284	1,282	1,278	1,262	1,601	1,223	1,162	1,152	1,148	1,051	1,031

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008	2013
1,145	1,044	994	915	893	814	791	797	723	719	646	578	692	731	711	813	882

Attractions

• Saint-Trémeur village church , built 1891–1892
• Chapel of Saint-Nicolas de Kervoenan (1824–1922) in Saint-Nicolas
• Entrance and enclosure of the village cemetery
• a fertility stele in Saint-Nicolas
• several small crosses and calvaries

• Attractions
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  The town hall (Mairie) of Calmez

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  Saint-Trémeur village church and cemetery

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  Saint-Nicolas chapel with cemetery

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , pp. 1273-1274.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sights of the community ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) 

Web links

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

• Location of the municipality
• Information about the history and the sights (French)