La Gouesnière

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La Gouesnière
Gouenaer
Coat of arms of La Gouesnière
La Gouesnière (France)
La Gouesnière
region Brittany
Department Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement Saint Malo
Canton Saint-Malo-1
Community association Pays de Saint-Malo
Coordinates 48 ° 36 ′  N , 1 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 36 ′  N , 1 ° 54 ′  W
height 2-47 m
surface 8.74 km 2
Residents 1,893 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 217 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 35350
INSEE code
Website http://www.mairie-saintjouan.fr/

Town hall (Mairie) of La Gouesnière

La Gouesnière ( Breton Gouenaer ) is a municipality with 1893 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in Brittany in north-western France in the Ille-et-Vilaine department . The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Saint-Malo and the canton of Saint-Malo-1 (until 2015: canton of Saint-Malo-Sud ). The inhabitants are called Gouesnériens .

geography

La Gouesnière is about nine kilometers southeast of Saint-Malo . The Canal des Allemands runs through the municipality . La Gouesnière is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes in the north, Saint-Benoît-des-Ondes in the east and northeast, La Fresnais in the east and southeast, Saint-Guinoux in the south and Saint-Père-Marc-en- Chicken in the west and south-west.

The municipality's train station is on the Rennes – Saint-Malo railway line .

Population development

year 1793 1856 1901 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012
Residents 481 943 846 660 669 799 908 942 1,068 1,583 1,678
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Notre-Dame church

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-072-8 , pp. 1505-1508.
  • Joseph Viel: La Gouesnière et Bonaban. Monograph. 2011, ISBN 978-2-7586-0534-8 .

Web links

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