Lesneven
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Brest | |
| Canton | Lesneven (main town) | |
| Community association | Lesneven et Côte des Légends | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 34 ′ N , 4 ° 19 ′ W | |
| height | 14-79 m | |
| surface | 10.27 km 2 | |
| Residents | 7,311 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 712 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29260 | |
| INSEE code | 29124 | |
| Website | http://www.lesneven.bzh/ | |
 Mairie Lesneven |
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Lesneven ( Breton Lesneven ) is a French commune in the Finistère department with 7,311 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). It is located in northwest Brittany just a few kilometers south of the English Channel coast . Brest is 24 kilometers southwest and Paris about 480 kilometers east. The Quillimadec River runs along the eastern boundary of the municipality .
traffic
In Landerneau and Brest are the next departures of the highway E 50 ( Rennes -Brest) and regional stations .
The regional airport Aéroport de Brest Bretagne is 16 kilometers southwest.
history
In the 5th and 6th centuries, immigrants from south-west Wales established the precursor church that became Lesneven. During the War of the Breton Succession , the parish switched between French and English control several times.
During the Second World War , the place Lesneven gained some importance when on August 20, 1944 the surrender negotiations between the German troops and the American General Donald Stroh failed and the so-called Battle of Brest began. On September 20, 1944, the German General Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke , commandant of the fortress of Brest, was taken prisoner after the surrender. There is a military cemetery in the village where, among other things, members of the crew of the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen are buried.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 5071 | 5626 | 6083 | 6145 | 6250 | 6349 | 6740 | 7311 |
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | ||||||||
Attractions
- Saint-Michel church, monument historique
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Lesneven
Parish partnership
- Bad Heilbrunn in Upper Bavaria , Germany , since 2013
Personalities
- Salaün Ar Foll (around 1310 to around 1358), Breton saint
- Adolphe Le Flô (1804–1887), general and statesman
- Charles Huntziger (1880–1941), Général d'armée and politician
- Fañch Favé (1905–1951), cyclist; lived in Lesneven
- Auguste Le Breton (1913–1999), writer and lexicographer
- René Pétillon (1945–2018), comic artist and cartoonist
literature
- Jean-Yves Le Goff: Lesneven, destins d'une capitale. ; Lesneven et son patrimoine. ; Le général Adolphe Le Flô. éditions Musée du Léon.
- Claude Le Menn: Saint-François de Lesneven, 1625-2005. Ed. Keltia Graphic, 2005; Étonnants Léonards Éd. Keltia Graphic, 2007.
- C. Vlerick, N. Ledouble: Lesneven et la côte des légends. Ed. Keltia graphic, 2007.
- Marius-Fernand, Louis Blanc: Histoire de Lesneven, du Folgoet & alentours. Le Thsbor Editions, 2009, ISBN 978-2-917018-26-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film recordings from the US National Archives on the failed armistice negotiations in Lesneven
- ^ Film recordings from the US National Archives on the surrender and surrender of General Ramcke in Lesneven
- ↑ Ingo Bauernfeind: Radioactive for all eternity - The fate of the Prinz Eugen . ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-8132-0928-0 , p. 163 .
