Clefs
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| local community | Baugé-en-Anjou | |
| region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Maine-et-Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Saumur | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 38 ′ N , 0 ° 4 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 49150 | |
| Former INSEE code | 49101 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2013 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
.jpg) District administration ( mairie- annexe) and former school building of Clefs |
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Clefs is a district of the French community Baugé-en-Anjou in the department of Maine-et-Loire in the region of Pays de la Loire . It was an independent municipality until December 31, 2012 and then merged with Vaulandry to form the new municipality of Clefs-Val-d'Anjou . Since then, Clefs has been a commune déléguée with 980 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
Three years later, on January 1, 2016, it was incorporated into Baugé-en-Anjou together with the other municipalities of the former canton of Baugé-en-Anjou .
geography
Clefs is in the Baugeois countryside . Its district bordered in the west on the former municipality of Saint-Quentin-lès-Beaurepaire and for a short distance also on Fougeré , in the south on Montpollin and in the east on Vaulandry . The northern boundary of the district is also the border with the Sarthe department . To the east of Clefs is the great forest of Pugle. The Ruisseau de Mélinais , a narrow tributary of the Loir, has its source in Clefs . Clefs include the hamlets and farms of La Remenoutière, Le Percher, La Basse Maricaudière, La Croix de Roussay, Montjoie, Le Verger, La Joutelière, L'Orangerie, Les Guiberdières, La Cour du Liège .
history
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The first Notre-Dame church is known in the 11th century. In 1138 Augustinians founded the Saint-Jean de Mélinais monastery , which was extensively restored in the first half of the 17th century.
As an independent municipality, Clef had the INSEE code 49101. On January 1, 2013, Clefs was incorporated as the main town together with the neighboring town of Vaulandry in the newly created municipality of Clefs-Val-d'Anjou . This dissolved again on January 1, 2016 and became part of Baugé-en-Anjou, which includes the village of Clefs together with the originally 14 other municipalities in the territory of the former canton of Baugé-en-Anjou as communes déléguées .
Economy and Infrastructure
Clefs is called the capital of bees . Most of that has been said about the economy, because a lot revolves around beekeeping. There is the Route of the Honey , beekeeping and processing plants as well as some tourism (hotel).
The Départementsstraße D 938 Baugé - La Flèche is used as a bypass road around Clefs. The train connection to La Flèche has been suspended for many decades.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de Maine-et-Loire . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-117-1 , pp. 239-243.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arrêté nº DRCL-2015-525 du 10 juillet 2015 portant création de la commune nouvelle de Baugé-en-Anjou . Retrieved March 15, 2016 (French, PDF, p. 14).