Gomené

Gomené Gouvene
region	Brittany
Department	Cotes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Saint-Brieuc
Canton	Broons
Community association	Loudéac Community - Bretagne Center
Coordinates	48 ° 10 ′  N , 2 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′  N , 2 ° 29 ′  W
height	104-221 m
surface	25.37 km 2
Residents	546 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	22 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	22230
INSEE code	22062
Website	http://gomene.fr/
Mairie Gomené

Gomené ( Breton : Gouvene ) is a French commune with 546 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Côtes-d'Armor department in the Brittany region . It belongs to the arrondissement of Saint-Brieuc and the canton of Broons . The residents call themselves Gomenéens / Gomenéennes .

geography

Gomené is located about 43 kilometers southeast of Saint-Brieuc and about 60 kilometers west-northwest of Rennes in the south of the Côtes-d'Armor department.

history

The approximately 6.0 m high Menhir de la Pellionaie from the Neolithic Age , the megalithic systems of Gomené and remains from the Gallo-Roman period are evidence of early human settlement.

Gomené was first mentioned by name as Gomene in 1256.

In October 1817 there was an exchange of territory with the municipality of Ménéac in Morbihan.

On June 15, 1944, as a warning to the Resistance, two young men (17 and 18 years old) were executed by the Wehrmacht on the village square.

The parish was part of the Broons district from 1793 to 1801. It was also part of the canton of Merdrignac from 1793 to 2015 . From 1801 to 1926 Gomené was administratively assigned to the Arrondissement Loudéac. The municipality has been part of the Dinan arrondissement since 1926.

Population development

year	1793	1821	1831	1861	1911	1921	1936	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Residents	1096	1112	1058	1385	1247	1119	1069	841	718	647	596	535	539	585	561
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

The increasing mechanization of agriculture and the high number of those who died in the First World War led to a drop in the number of inhabitants to the lows of recent times.

Attractions

• Castle Château de la Hersonnière 19th century
• Notre-Dame village church (built 1857–1863)
• Saint-Gwenaël Chapel (built 1875)
• Sainte-Anne Chapel (built in 1876)
• numerous crosses and wayside crosses, the oldest from the high Middle Ages
• the mansions Manoir des Aulnays (also known as the castle; 14th – 17th centuries) and Manoir de Roquetton
• the former rectory
• old houses and farms in La Ville-Haye (18th century), La Ville-ès-Pies (1739) and La Hingandière
• Fountain in Les Aulnays and Sainte-Anne fountain in Roquetton (built 1876)
• 6 water and windmills in La Courbe, Aulnais, d'A-haut, Tertre-Gloret, Roquetton and Couëlan
• Memorial to the Fallen
• Menhir from La Pellionnaie / Pellionaie
• an Allée couverte ( gallery tomb) in La Ville-Menot
• a granite block in Les Aulnays with an old Breton inscription from the 6th century
• a rectangular dovecote from the 19th century

Notre-Dame church

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , pp. 695-699.

Web links

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

• Brief information about the community
• Gomené on the IGN website
• Photo of the Notre-Dame village church
• Information about the history and the sights

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description of the sights (French) ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Memorial to the fallen of the two world wars