Combrit
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Combrit Combrid |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Quimper | |
| Canton | Plonéour Lanvern | |
| Community association | Pays Bigouden Sud | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 53 ′ N , 4 ° 10 ′ W | |
| height | 0-62 m | |
| surface | 24.13 km 2 | |
| Residents | 4,092 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 170 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29120 | |
| INSEE code | 29037 | |
| Website | http://www.ville-de-combrit.fr/ | |
 Location of Combrit in the Finistère department |
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Combrit ( Breton Kombrid ) is a French commune in the Finistère department with 4092 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
location
The place is located in the southwest of Brittany on the Odet River near the Atlantic coast . Quimper is 18 kilometers north, Brest 60 kilometers north-northwest and Paris about 490 kilometers east.
traffic
At Quimper the next exits are on the expressway E 60 (Brest- Nantes ) and a regional train station on the mostly parallel railway line. Combrit itself is connected to its neighboring communities via the Départementsstraße D 44.
Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris. The airports Aéroport de Brest Bretagne near Brest and Aéroport de Lorient Bretagne Sud near Lorient are the nearest regional airports .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2010 | 2017 |
| Residents | 2262 | 2233 | 2302 | 2495 | 2673 | 3165 | 3521 | 4092 |
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Sainte-Marine
The village of Sainte-Marine, located directly on the Odet estuary , belongs to Combrit . It is named after its chapel from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century dedicated to Sainte Moran (later known as Sainte Maraine and now known as Sainte Marine).
The local port was an important transshipment point for wines from the Bordelais and Saintonge even in the Middle Ages . Huguenots settled here during the wars of religion . In 1675 the code paysan was signed there, with which the revolt against the paper tax (also known as "Révolte des Torreben" , German "Révolte des Bonnets rouges" ) against a new minister from King Louis Colbert on the occasion of the Dutch War came to an end.
The lighthouse , the “Abri du marin” (“Refuge of the Navigator”, a monument historique ), the fortified Fort de Sainte-Marine from 1862, the church of St-Tugdual , the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Clarté The sports boat harbor and the sandy beach are important fixed points for tourism . During the summer season, a passenger ferry connects Sainte-Marine with Bénodet on the opposite bank of the Odet.
The Parc Botanique de Cornouaille has existed since 1983 .
Parish partnership
Combrit has had a partnership with the Black Forest community of Grafenhausen in Baden-Württemberg since 1973 .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 1187-1201.
