Le Teilleul (Le Teilleul)
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| local community | Le Teilleul | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Some | |
| Arrondissement | Avranches | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 32 ′ N , 0 ° 52 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 50640 | |
| Former INSEE code | 50591 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2016 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 Chapel of the Cour de Houessey |
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Le Teilleul is a village and a former French commune with 1,189 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Manche department in the region of Normandy . It belonged to the canton of Le Mortainais in the Arrondissement of Avranches .
With effect from January 1, 2016, the previous municipalities of Le Teilleul , Ferrières , Heussé , Husson and Sainte-Marie-du-Bois were merged to form Commune nouvelle Le Teilleul of the same name . The former municipalities have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in Le Teilleul.
geography
Le Teilleul is located in the south of the Manche department in the Pays de la Baie du Mont-Saint-Michel (area of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel ), 74 kilometers northeast of Rennes and 31 kilometers northeast of Fougères . In the vicinity are the hamlets of Cour de Houessey and Courteille and the pond Étang de Morette . Le Teilleul is surrounded by pastures and fields, which have typical field boundaries of the Bocage .
history
The place name is derived from the French word tilleul , which means " linden tree ".
In 1793 Le Teilleul received in the course of the French Revolution (1789-1799) the status of a municipality and in 1801 the right to local self-government.
| year | 1793 | 1851 | 1866 | 1896 | 1911 | 1954 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
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| Residents | 2,380 | 2,604 | 2,422 | 2,104 | 1,945 | 1,660 | 1,542 | 1,433 | 1,377 | 1,309 |
Le Teilleul had the most inhabitants in 1861, after which the population decreased continuously.
Attractions
The Saint-Patrice church was completed in 1854 based on a plan from 1851. It is designed in the Nine Norman style . In 2006 the building was entered in the additional directory of the Monuments historiques (historical monuments). In the church there is a baptismal font from the 15th or 16th century. It is made of granite and wood and was classified as a Monument historique in 1975.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Decree of the Prefecture of Arrêté No. 15-2015 on the formation of the Commune nouvelle Le Teilleul of December 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Official website of the Pays de la Baie ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) Retrieved January 23, 2010
- ↑ Auguste Longnon: Les noms de lieu de la France: leur origine, leur signification, leurs transformations . Ayer Publishing, 1973, ISBN 978-0-8337-2142-6 , pp. 618 ( in Google Books [accessed January 23, 2010]). (French)
- ↑ Le Teilleul on cassini.ehess.fr (French). Retrieved January 23, 2010
- ↑ Le Teilleul in the Base Mérimée des Ministère de la culture (French). Accessed January 23, 2010
- ↑ Le Teilleul in Base Palissy (French). Retrieved January 23, 2010
