Cheix-en-Retz
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Cheix-en-Retz Keiz-Raez |
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| region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Loire-Atlantique | |
| Arrondissement | Nantes | |
| Canton | Machecoul | |
| Community association | Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 11 ′ N , 1 ° 49 ′ W | |
| height | 0-27 m | |
| surface | 8.34 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,067 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 128 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 44640 | |
| INSEE code | 44039 | |
| Website | http://www.coeurpaysderetz.fr/cheix-en-retz,32.html | |
 Saint Martin Church |
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Cheix-en-Retz ( Breton : Keiz-Raez ; Gallo : Chaèz ) is a French municipality with 1067 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 Machecoul (until 2015: Canton Le Pellerin ). The inhabitants are called Cheixois .
geography
Cheix-en-Retz is located on the Acheneau around twenty kilometers west-southwest of Nantes in the historic Pays de Retz landscape . Cheix-en-Retz is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Le Pellerin in the north and northeast, Brains in the east, Port-Saint-Père in the south and southeast and Rouans in the south and west.
The municipality is located in the Gros Plant du Pays Nantais wine-growing region .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
| Residents | 315 | 308 | 326 | 367 | 442 | 530 | 699 | 913 |
Attractions
- Saint Martin Church
- Chapel of the Bois-Corbeau castle from the 12th century
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Loire-Atlantique . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-040-X , pp. 883-885.
Web links
- Monuments historiques (objects) in Cheix-en-Retz in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture