Le Louroux-Béconnais
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| local community | Val d'Erdre-Auxence | |
| region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Maine-et-Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Angers | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 31 ' N , 0 ° 53' W | |
| Post Code | 49370 | |
| Former INSEE code | 49183 | |
| Incorporation | 15th December 2016 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | http://www.louroux-beconnais.fr | |
 Le Louroux-Béconnais town hall |
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Le Louroux-Béconnais is a town and commune Déléguée in the western French commune Val d'Erdre Auxence with 3,217 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Maine-et-Loire in the region of Pays de la Loire . The inhabitants are called Lorétain (es) .
The municipality of Le Louroux-Béconnais merged with La Cornuaille and Villemoisan on December 15, 2016 to form the new municipality of Val d'Erdre-Auxence. It belonged to the Angers and the canton of Chalonnes-sur-Loire (until 2015: canton Le Louroux-Béconnais ).
geography
Le Louroux-Béconnais is located about 25 kilometers northwest of Angers near the source of the Erdre . The Vernou flows through the area of the former municipality . The municipality of Le Louroux-Béconnais was surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Erdre-en-Anjou in the north and northeast, Bécon-les-Granits in the east and southeast, Villemoisan in the south, Saint-Sigismond in the south and southeast, Belligné in the southwest, La Cornuaille in the West and Angrie in the northwest.
The former Route nationale 163 (today's D963) runs through the Commune déléguée .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
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| Residents | 1,796 | 1,747 | 1,725 | 1.916 | 2.011 | 2,065 | 2,549 | 2,953 |
Source: INSEE
Attractions
- Notre-Dame de Pontron Abbey, built 1130/1134, dissolved in 1791, Cistercian monastery (mother monastery: Le Loroux in Vernantes),
- The seven castles:
- Le Chillon Castle from the 12th century, originally as the priory of the Saint-Aubin Abbey in Angers, destroyed or rebuilt in the middle of the 19th century, new chapel from 1875
- La Mornais Castle, renovations from the end of the 18th century
- Le Pey Castle, built in the mid-19th century
- Piard Castle, today's castle from the end of the 19th century
- La Prévôterie Castle, originally from the 16th century, in ruins
- Vernoux Castle, rebuilt in the 19th century
- La Violaye Castle, built in the early 16th century,
- Eight windmills
Personalities
- Natalis Pinot (1747–1794), priest (in Louroux-Béconnais from 1788 to 1794), saint of the Roman Catholic Church, executed
- Louis Juchault de Lamoricière (1806–1865), general, former owner of Le Chillon Castle
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de Maine-et-Loire . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-117-1 , pp. 780-783.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le Louroux-Béconnais ( French ) INSEE. Retrieved on July 13, 2019 ( page no longer available , search in web archives )