Peumerite

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Peumerite
Purid
Coat of arms of Peumerit
Peumerite (France)
Peumerite
region Brittany
Department Finistère
Arrondissement Quimper
Canton Plonéour Lanvern
Community association Haut Pays Bigouden
Coordinates 47 ° 56 ′  N , 4 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′  N , 4 ° 19 ′  W
height 6-127 m
surface 19.59 km 2
Residents 803 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 41 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 29710
INSEE code 29159
Website http://www.peumerit.fr/

Mairie Peumerit

Peumerit ( Breton Purid ) is a French commune in the canton of Plogastel-Saint-Germain of the department of Finistère in Brittany with 803 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017).

location

The place is located in the southwest of Brittany near the Atlantic coast . Quimper is 16 kilometers east, Brest 50 kilometers north and Paris about 500 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).

traffic

At Quimper, the next exits are on the expressway E 60 (Brest - Nantes ) and a regional train station on the mainly parallel railway line.

The Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris and the airports Aéroport de Brest Bretagne near Brest and Aéroport de Lorient Bretagne Sud near Lorient are the nearest regional airports .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2010 2017
Residents 1011 884 739 755 729 663 781 803
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Two menhirs that were found lying in Kerloazec were set up in the La Pommeraie zoo.

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Peumerit

Menhirs in the La Pommeraie Zoo by Peumerit
Saint-Annouarn church
Saint Joseph Chapel

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 932-933.

Web links

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