Locqueltas
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Locqueltas Lokeltaz |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Morbihan | |
| Arrondissement | Vannes | |
| Canton | Grand Champ | |
| Community association | Golfe du Morbihan - Vannes Agglomération | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 45 ′ N , 2 ° 46 ′ W | |
| height | 53-144 m | |
| surface | 19.46 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,758 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 90 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 56390 | |
| INSEE code | 56120 | |
| Website | www.locqueltas.fr | |
.JPG) The village church of Saint-Gildas in Locqueltas |
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Locqueltas ( Breton : Lokeltaz ) is a French municipality with 1,758 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Morbihan in the region of Brittany .
geography
Locqueltas is located in the center of the Morbihan department.
Neighboring municipalities are Saint-Jean-Brévelay in the north-east, Plaudren in the east, Monterblanc in the south-east, Saint-Avé in the south, Meucon in the south-west, Locmaria-Grand-Champ in the west and Colpo in the north-west.
The place is away from roads for national traffic. The main road links nearby are the D767 (to the west), the N24 (to the north) and the N166 (to the southeast). A stretch of the former Chemins de fer du Morbihan ran through the town.
The main bodies of water are the Loc'h river , the Camzon , Le Moulin de Kerizac and Rodué creeks and the Locqueltas pond. The municipal boundary partially runs along these watercourses.
history
The community was only created on February 17, 1864 by splitting off from the community of Plaudren.
Population development
| year | 1866 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 | ||
| Residents | 725 | 733 | 744 | 745 | 1056 | 1128 | 1215 | 1484 | 1647 | ||
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | |||||||||||
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Locqueltas
- Saint-Gildas village church (neo-Gothic) from 1878, with a calvary from the 16th century
- Castle of Camezon from 1860
- Manor houses in Bodalic (Botdaly; 15th century), Camezon (Kervazy; 15th and 16th centuries) and Trédec (15th century)
- Saint-Barthélemy chapel in Cranhuac (16th century; restored in the 20th century)
- House chapel in L'Hermitage from the 16th century
- Crossroads of Coëtcandec (also Camegan) from the 18th century
- Mission house of the Filles de Jésus from 1835
- Worth seeing old houses from the 19th century in Kérizac and Tremerian
- Sources in Goah-Glass (18th century) and L'Hermitage (in Keruba; 16th century)
- Calvary in Morbauleau (Morbouleau; 1896)
- Remains of several tombs from Gallo-Roman times
- Dolmen of Locqueltas Dolmen à cabinets latéraux of Locqueltas
Source in Locqueltas
Coëtcandec wayside cross
Calvary in the village cemetery
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literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Morbihan. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-84234-009-4 , pp. 340-342.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sights of the community ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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)
