Langourla

Langourla
local community	Le Mené
region	Brittany
Department	Cotes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Dinan
Coordinates	48 ° 17 ′  N , 2 ° 25 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′  N , 2 ° 25 ′  W
Post Code	22330
Former INSEE code	22102
Incorporation	January 1, 2016
status	Commune déléguée

Langourla ( Gallo : Langórlàè , Breton Langourlae ) is a town and commune Déléguée in the French commune of Le Mené with 537 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Côtes-d'Armor in the region of Brittany . The inhabitants are called Langourlaciens / Langourlaciennes .

geography

Langourla is located about 36 kilometers southeast of Saint-Brieuc and about 50 kilometers southwest of Saint-Malo in the eastern half of the Côtes-d'Armor department.

history

The first traces of settlement date from the Neolithic Age. The menhir of La Coudre is a testimony to this era. The Roman route from Vannes to Corseul led through the municipality. The remains of a building from the Gallo-Roman period have been found south of La Plançonnais. Traces of a curtain wall with a moat have been discovered in the forest of La Rouvraie. The Langourla settlement was first mentioned with its current name in 1211. A deed of donation from 1239 contains the name of a crusader named Robert de Langourla. Place names like l'Hôpital and Ville-Dée (also called Villedieu) suggest a presence of the Templars and the Johanniter. In the Middle Ages the settlement had a market hall and market stalls. The Lords of Langourla were subordinate to the Counts of Porhoët. The municipality belonged to the Broons district from 1793 to 1801 and was the capital of the canton of Langourla. From 1801 to 1926 it was part of the Loudéac arrondissement and has since been part of the Dinan arrondissement. From 1801 to 2015 it was a municipality in the canton of Collinée .

With effect from January 1, 2016, the merger of all seven municipalities of the community association Communauté de communes du Mené resulted in the new municipality Le Mené , to which Langourla belongs. The municipality of Langourla belonged to the Arrondissement of Dinan and the canton of Plénée-Jugon .

Population development

The number of residents remained stable between 1793 and 1821. This was followed by a long growth phase - only of temporary declines - until 1876 (1821–1876: +37.3%). Up until the beginning of the First World War, the population stagnated at more than 1,500 people (1876: 1,586, 1911: 1,593). As a result of the numerous casualties and the flu outbreak of 1918, the number of residents fell by 242 between 1911 and 1921 (−15.2%). The population stabilized between the two world wars. But with the beginning of the Second World War, a strong rural exodus that continues to this day (1936–2012: −59.9%) began.

year	1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851	1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
Residents	1,160	1,142	1,111	1,155	1,302	1,300	1,318	1,370	1,352	1,274	1,357	1,469	1,469	1,586	1,541	1,548	1,550	1,579
year	1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012	2013
Residents	1,624	1,588	1,593	1,351	1,326	1,302	1.313	1,187	1,016	967	895	765	690	631	609	627	527	522

Source: Cassini and INSEE from 1962

Attractions

• Castle Château de Coelan (built in 1870)
• Saint-Pierre village church , built in 1869
• The 16th century tower of the Saint-Eutrope chapel
• Chapel Saint-Joseph in Saint-Joseph (built in the 18th century, restored in 1818, rebuilt 1905/1906)
• 18th century Saint-Georges chapel in Blanc-Mouton
• Saint-Gilles-des-Prés Chapel (built in 1911)
• Cross by Le Bois de Coëlan
• several mansions: Manoir Blanc-Mouton (17th century), Manoir de Coëcard (18th century), Manoir de la Plançonnais (17th century) and Manoir de Saint-Joseph (also called Gentilhommière , 18th century)
• old houses in La Plançonnais (17th century) and La Huchardais (18th century)
• Rectory from 1699
• several mills
• Menhir from La Coudre from the Neolithic Age
• Lavoir (wash house) in Langourla
• La Cocantine tumulus
• Pond south of the village
• old oak at the Saint-Joseph chapel
• Memorial to the Fallen

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  Saint-Pierre church with tower of Saint-Eutrope

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  Saint-Gilles-des-Prés chapel

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  Langourla pond

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , pp. 191-195.

Web links

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

• Information about the history and the sights
• Brief description of Langourla on the website of the municipality of Le Mené

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description of the sights (French) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 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