Le Faouët (Morbihan)

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Le Faouët
Ar Faoued
Le Faouët coat of arms
Le Faouët (France)
Le Faouët
region Brittany
Department Morbihan
Arrondissement Pontivy
Canton Gourin
Community association Roi Morvan Community
Coordinates 48 ° 2 ′  N , 3 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′  N , 3 ° 29 ′  W
height 53-202 m
surface 34.03 km 2
Residents 2,803 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 82 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 56320
INSEE code 56057
Website http://www.lefaouet.fr

Le Faouët market hall

Le Faouët ( Breton : Ar Faoued ) is a French municipality with 2803 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Morbihan in the region of Brittany . Le Faouët belongs to the canton of Gourin .

location

Le Faouët is located in the extreme northwest of the Morbihan department, in the Cornouaille countryside , on a ridge above the 100 m lower lying valleys of the Ellé and Inam , which meet in the south of the municipality.

Neighboring municipalities are Meslan , Priziac , Langonnet , Le Saint , Guiscriff and Lanvénégen . The most important district next to the main town Le Faouët is the village of Saint-Fiacre , in which there is a beautiful Gothic church.

The D 769, an expressway that connects Lorient with Roscoff , runs through the municipality .

Population structure

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007
Residents 3,057 3,048 3.149 3,177 2,869 2,808 2,901

Age structure (2007)

Age group 19 years or younger 20–64 years 65 years or older
Proportion of residents per age group 19.4% 49.6% 31.0%

(Source: INSEE)

economy

In 2007, around 3% of the workforce worked in agriculture and around 27% in industry or in construction. The remaining 70% of the workforce was employed in the tertiary sector.

In 2008, 12% of the local holdings were in agriculture and 16% in the secondary sector. The remaining 72% of the establishments belonged to the service sector. (Source: INSEE)

history

Historically, the municipality belongs to the Breton region of Kernev (French Cornouaille ) and within this region to the Aven region (French also) and shares its history. Le Faouët has been the capital of the canton of the same name since 1793.

Attractions

In the municipality of Le Faouët , the following points of interest can be discovered:

Market hall

In the center of Le Faouët is the imposing, wooden market hall with a roof structure that is well worth seeing. Built at the end of the 15th / beginning of the 16th century, the market hall is still in use today.

Chapel of Sainte-Barbe

To the north of the village is the late Gothic Sainte-Barbe chapel on a ridge, which was built between 1489 and 1512. A remarkable Renaissance staircase leads down to the chapel, which is located just below the summit plateau.

Saint-Fiacre chapel

The Saint-Fiacre chapel of the same name, built in 1480, is located in the district of Saint-Fiacre . The colored wooden lettuce , richly decorated with carvings, is worth seeing . The creator of the rood screen, Olivier Le Loergan, was raised to the nobility for this work. See also the Holy Kinship window , Wurzel Jesse window (Le Faouët) and others. a.

More Attractions

  • Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption village church from the end of the 15th century
  • Ursuline Convent, now an art school and Musée des Beaux Arts (Museum of Fine Arts), from 1690
  • Saint-Adrien Chapel in Lambelleguic from the 16th century
  • Saint-Fiacre chapel from the 17th century by the Ursuline convent
  • Saint-Jean chapel from the 15th-17th centuries Century (four kilometers northwest of Le Faouët)
  • Saint-Sébastien chapel from 1598–1608 in the town of the same name
  • 17th century house Maison de Garde in Saint-Barbe
  • Ossuary at the Saint-Barbe chapel
  • Fontaine de dévotion (Fountain of Worship) from 1708
  • old watermills in Barrigan, Diarnelez, Guel, Le Mur and Rerzen, paper mill in Le Grand-Pont
  • former mansions in Barregan , Diarnelez , Kerdudou (15th century) and Keryhuel

  • Mayor's office of Le Faouët

  • Chapel of Sainte-Barbe

  • Saint-Jean chapel

  • Saint-Sébastien Chapel

  • Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption village church in Le Faouët

  • Roof stalls of the market hall

  • Chapel of Sainte-Fiacre

  • Rood screen of the Sainte-Fiacre chapel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Faouët on the Insee website
  2. ↑ Le Faouët on the Insee website
  3. ↑ Le Faouët on Cassini.ehess.fr (French)
  4. ↑ Sights of the community ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fr.topic-topos.com
  5. ^ [1] Le Faouët market hall in the Base Mérimée database of the French Ministry of Culture
  6. ↑ http://www.lefaouet.fr/index.php/Le-marche/id-menu-33.html
  7. ^ Frank and Almut Rother: The Bretagne. In the land of dolmens, menhirs and Calvaires , p. 250
  8. ^ Frank and Almut Rother: The Bretagne. In the land of dolmens, menhirs and Calvaires , p. 250
  9. ↑ English Wikipedia entry on Le Faouët (Morbihan)

literature

  • Frank and Almut Rother: Brittany. In the land of dolmens, menhirs and Calvaires . DuMont Art Guide, Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-7701-0933-3 .
  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Morbihan. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-84234-009-4 , pp. 241-255.

Web links

Commons : Le Faouët  - collection of images, videos and audio files