Le Loroux-Bottereau
Le Loroux-Bottereau Lavreer-Botorel |
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region | Pays de la Loire | |
Department | Loire-Atlantique | |
Arrondissement | Nantes | |
Canton | Vallet | |
Community association | Sèvre et Loire | |
Coordinates | 47 ° 14 ′ N , 1 ° 21 ′ W | |
height | 2-93 m | |
surface | 45.31 km 2 | |
Residents | 8,227 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 182 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 44430 | |
INSEE code | 44084 | |
Website | http://www.loroux-bottereau.fr/ | |
![]() Le Loroux-Bottereau town hall |
Le Loroux-Bottereau ( Breton : Lavreer-Botorel , Langues d'oïl : Le Lorór-Boterèu ) is a commune with 8227 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the Loire-Atlantique in the Region Pays de la Loire . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Nantes and the Canton of Vallet . The inhabitants are called Lorousains .
geography
Le Loroux-Bottereau is located south of the Loire in the vineyards of the Vignoble nantais . Le Loroux-Bottereau is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Divatte-sur-Loire in the north, Orée d'Anjou and La Remaudière in the east, Le Landreau in the south and south-east, La Chapelle-Heulin in the south, Haute-Goulaine in the west and south-west and Saint -Julien-de-Concelles to the west and north-west.
The Muscadet and Gros Plant du Pays Nantais wine-growing regions also extend into the municipality.
Population development
year | 1936 | 1946 | 1954 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
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Residents | 3,069 | 2.986 | 3,024 | 3,067 | 3,204 | 3,488 | 4.033 | 4,353 | 4,936 | 6,023 | 7,339 |
Attractions
- Saint-Jean-Baptiste church, built between 1858 and 1870 in neo-Gothic style by Henry Faucheur, Monument historique
- Statue of Louis XVI.
- Remains of the Saint-Laurent chapel
- Pé windmills, built in the 19th century, now converted for residential use
Personalities
- Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière (1610–1663), doctor, poet and member of the Académie française
- Vincent-Yves Boutin (1772-1815), French military
- Lucien Fruchaud (* 1934), Bishop of Saint-Brieuc and Tréguier
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Loire-Atlantique . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-040-X , pp. 532-535.