Grand Auverné

Grand-Auverné Arwerneg-Veur
region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement	Châteaubriant-Ancenis
Canton	Châteaubriant
Community association	Châteaubriant-Derval
Coordinates	47 ° 36 ′  N , 1 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′  N , 1 ° 20 ′  W
height	22-76 m
surface	34.4 km 2
Residents	768 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	22 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	44520
INSEE code	44065
Website	http://grand-auverne.a3w.fr/
Grand-Auverné town hall

Grand-Auverné ( Breton : Arwerneg-Veur ; Gallo : Graund-Auvernaé ) is a French municipality with 768 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Loire-Atlantique in the Region Pays de la Loire ; it is part of the arrondissement of Châteaubriant-Ancenis and the canton of Châteaubriant (until 2015: Moisdon-la-Rivière ). The inhabitants are called Alvernes .

geography

Grand-Auverné is located about 58 kilometers south-southeast of Rennes and about 49 kilometers north-northeast of Nantes . The Don River limits the municipality in the northwest. Grand-Auverné is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Petit-Auverné in the north, Vallons-de-l'Erdre in the east, Riaillé in the south, La Meilleraye-de-Bretagne in the west and Moisdon-la-Rivière in the north-west.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Residents	1,041	1,051	905	877	754	681	711	823
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

• Le Petite-Haie mansion from the 15th / 16th centuries century
• Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul church from 1879
• Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours chapels in Aunais and Sainte-Anne in La Blanche
• Gaillard Palace

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  Le Petite-Haie mansion

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  Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul church

Personalities

• Joseph Doré (* 1936), theologian, Archbishop of Strasbourg (1997-2007)

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Loire-Atlantique . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-040-X , pp. 575-579.

Web links

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