Cugand

Cugand
region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Vendée
Arrondissement	La Roche-sur-Yon
Canton	Mortagne-sur-Sèvre
Community association	Montaigu-Rocheservière
Coordinates	47 ° 4 ′ N , 1 ° 15 ′ W Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ N , 1 ° 15 ′ W
height	13-71 m
surface	13.47 km 2
Residents	3,498 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	260 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	85610
INSEE code	85076
Website	http://www.cugand.fr/
	; Garenne Lemot Castle

Cugand is a French municipality with 3498 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vendée in the region of Pays de la Loire . It belongs to the arrondissement of La Roche-sur-Yon and the canton of Mortagne-sur-Sèvre . The inhabitants are called Cugandais .

geography

Cugand is the northernmost municipality in the Vendée department. It is located on the Maingot river , a tributary of the Sèvre Nantaise , which borders the municipality in the north. Cugand is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Géttigné in the north and east, Boussay in the southeast, La Bruffière in the south, La Bernardière in the southwest, Saint-Hilaire-de-Clisson in the west and Clisson in the northwest.

The former Route nationale 755 runs through the municipality . The Muscadet grapes are also grown in the Gros Plant du Pays Nantais wine-growing region .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Residents		2.110	2,199	2,425	2,525	2,627	2,776	3,171	3,346

Attractions

Saint-Pierre church. The artistic glazing was created by the glass painter's workshop Ely, which initially worked in Nantes and later in Kassel-Wehlheiden.
Villa Garenne Lemot, Monument historique
Mills at Sèvre Nantaise
obelisk
Grotto (replica of the Lourdes grotto)

Personalities

Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard (1770–1846), banker and entrepreneur

literature

Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Vendée. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-118-X , pp. 527-530.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Götz J. Pfeiffer: The artistic glazing was created by the glass painter's workshop Ely, which initially worked in Nantes and later in Kassel-Wehlheiden. "owes the establishment of this art industry to the Ely family". Ely family and glass painting workshop in Kassel, Nantes and Wehlheiden . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies . tape 121 , 2016, p. 175-200 .

[1] Götz J. Pfeiffer: The artistic glazing was created by the glass painter's workshop Ely, which initially worked in Nantes and later in Kassel-Wehlheiden. "owes the establishment of this art industry to the Ely family". Ely family and glass painting workshop in Kassel, Nantes and Wehlheiden . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies . tape 121 , 2016, p. 175-200 .