Mazé

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Mazé
Mazé coat of arms
Mazé (France)
Mazé
local community Mazé-Milon
region Pays de la Loire
Department Maine-et-Loire
Arrondissement Angers
Coordinates 47 ° 27 ′  N , 0 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 27 ′  N , 0 ° 16 ′  W
Post Code 49630
Former INSEE code 49194
Incorporation January 1, 2016
status Commune déléguée

Mazé is a town and commune Déléguée in the French municipality with 5166 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Maine-et-Loire in the region of Pays de la Loire .

geography

Mazé is located in the Baugeois countryside on the banks of the Authion river , at the confluence of its tributary Couasnon , on the N 147 Angers - Longué-Jumelles road . The place is part of the Loire-Anjou-Touraine Regional Nature Park .

history

From 1790 Mazé was briefly the capital of its own canton. However, it was dissolved again in 1801 and largely integrated into the canton of Beaufort. On July 5, 1978, Mazé stepped into the light of an international public when the Montgeoffroy Castle was a stage destination of the Tour de France .

With effect from January 1, 2016, the municipalities of Mazé and Fontaine-Milon were merged into a Commune nouvelle called Mazé-Milon. The municipality of Mazé belonged to the Arrondissement of Angers and the canton of Beaufort-en-Vallée .

Population development
year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2009
Residents 2,418 2,512 2,555 3,192 3.714 3,875 4,572 4,743

Attractions

Montgeoffroy Castle

The Montgeoffroy castle is one of the better known castles in the Loire region. Louis-Georges-Erasme de Contades began building the complex in 1772 on a site that an ancestor had acquired in 1676 and on which a ruinous castle building existed from medieval times. Contades planned to take his retirement home here. The work planned and directed by the Parisian architect Jean Benoît Vincent Barré lasted until 1775. The architect respected the plan of the old complex and integrated two towers and the chapel from 1543 into the new building. The French Revolution and all subsequent storms survived Montgeoffrroy surprisingly, virtually unscathed, the original interiors of the 18th century with all the furniture and the complete kitchen can be admired so today. In addition, a large number of horse-drawn carriages can be viewed.

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Mazé-Milon

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de Maine-et-Loire . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-117-1 , pp. 296-302.

Web links

Commons : Mazé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mazé on the INSEE site