Concarneau

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Concarneau
Konk cores
Concarneau coat of arms
Concarneau (France)
Concarneau
region Brittany
Department Finistère
Arrondissement Quimper
Canton Concarneau (main town)
Community association Concarneau Cornouaille agglomeration
Coordinates 47 ° 53 ′  N , 3 ° 55 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ′  N , 3 ° 55 ′  W
height 0-106 m
surface 41.08 km 2
Residents 19,050 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 464 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 29900
INSEE code 29039
Website http://www.ville-concarneau.fr/

The Ville Close from a bird's eye view

Concarneau ( Breton Konk-Kerne ) is a French commune in the arrondissement of Quimper and in the department of Finistère . The city, located 22 km southeast of Quimper on the east coast of the Baie de La Forêt, is part of the historic Cornouaille landscape and has 19,050 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). Its old town, the Ville close , located within massive walls , is almost completely surrounded by water and is well worth seeing.

Map of the Ville close

history

Emergence

The place of today's Concarneau was first settled in the 10th century by monks from Landévennec Abbey . They built a small monastery here on an island at the mouth of the Moros River (today's Ville Close). Concarneau later developed into an important Breton fortress. The Ville Close has been connected to the mainland by a bridge since the 12th century.

Meaning of the name

The name of the city, in Breton Konk-Kerne , originally means Henkel von Cornouaille , i.e. the refugees from Cornwall in Britain, which indicates the close cultural ties between Brittany and Cornwall , because Cornouailles is actually just the French pronunciation for Cornwall , where the word component wall in Cornwall is of Germanic origin and means "foreigner" (mostly Celts or Romans), z. B. also in Wales , see Welsche .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2011 2017
Residents 15,907 17.801 18,759 17,984 18,630 19,453 18,826 19,050

Culture and sights

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Les Remparts and Ville Close

A tour of Les Remparts - the city wall of the Ville close - offers beautiful insights into the streets and views of the harbor and marina. In addition to souvenir shops, there are small restaurants and a fishing museum within the Ville close .

  • Ville close

  • southwest corner of the wall of Ville Close , with clock and sundial

  • Street in the ville close

  • Fountain in the Ville close

  • Gate to the jetty in the Ville close

  • View to the marina of Les Remparts - the city wall

  • House in the old town of Ville Close

Le Musée de la Pêche

The fishing museum Le Musée de la Pêche shows the history of sea fishing and fishing techniques around the world through large dioramas, many models and different types of boats. In the outdoor area, you can see a real sea trawler, the Hémérica, from the hold to the bridge.

  • Sewing machine for sails

  • Model of a sailing ship

  • Deck of the Hémérica

  • Bridge of the Hémérica

  • Engine room of the Hémérica

Marinarium

As the showcase of the marine biological laboratory, the Station biologique de Concarneau , the Marinarium illustrates the extraordinary biodiversity of the oceans, the richness of the coastal regions and the protection of marine resources. Founded in 1859 by Jean Victor Coste (1807–1873), it is now a well-known research institution.

  • Concarneau Marinarium

  • Sealife in the Marinarium of Concarneau

  • Shark bits in the Concarneau marinarium

  • Fort you Cabellou

  • Fort you Cabellou

Fort you Cabellou

The Fort du Cabellou was built in 1746 to defend the entrance and the port of Concarneau. It has been a historical monument since 1962.

Kériolet Castle

The Kériolet Castle is a neo-Gothic castle, Zinaida Ivanovna Yusupova had built for her French husband Charles Chauveau from the 1863rd It was temporarily used by the Rasputin assassin Felix Felixowitsch Jussupow .

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Fête des Filets Bleus

In mid-August, the city celebrates the annual Fête des Filets Bleus (festival of the blue nets). It was founded in 1905, a year when the sardines were absent, to support fishermen and named after the traditional blue nets of the Concarneau fishing fleet. Thousands of participants in their traditional costumes attract tens of thousands of visitors every year. It is one of the greatest festivals of Breton and Celtic culture as they take place in many places in Brittany.

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Concarneau

Sports

The Union Sportive Concarnoise footballers have been playing in the semi-professional third division since 2016 . Since the mid-1960s, the club's players have repeatedly drawn attention across the country , especially in cup competitions .

The fishing port

economy

In addition to tourism, Concarneau's economy is largely based on fishing. The place is the third largest fishing port in France, it is even at the top for tuna , with a fleet of 36 ships, 900 sailors and an annual landing of 164,000 tons (tuna).

Avenue Bielefeld-Senne

Town twinning

Personalities

Trivia

  • Concarneau is the setting of the novel " Maigret and the Yellow Dog " (original title "Le chien jaune") by Georges Simenon from 1931
  • Concarneau is also the seat of the investigative unit headed by Commissioner Dupin in the Breton crime series published by Jörg Bong under the pseudonym Jean-Luc Bannalec

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 269-299.

Web links

Commons : Concarneau  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Concarneau  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Travel know-how Brittany . Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8317-1945-7 .