Ploërmel

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Ploërmel
Coat of arms of Ploërmel
Ploërmel (France)
Ploërmel
region Brittany
Department Morbihan
Arrondissement Pontivy
Canton Ploërmel (main town)
Community association Ploërmel Communauté
Coordinates 47 ° 56 ′  N , 2 ° 24 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′  N , 2 ° 24 ′  W
height 19-106 m
surface 57.82 km 2
Residents 9,837 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 170 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 56800
INSEE code 56165
Website http://www.ploermel.com

Saint-Armel church in Ploërmel

Ploërmel is a French commune with 9,837 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Morbihan in the region of Brittany . It belongs to the arrondissement of Pontivy and the canton of Ploërmel .

It was created with effect from January 1, 2019 as the Commune nouvelle of the same name through the merging of the previous municipalities of Ploërmel and Monterrein . Only Monterrein has the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality .

structure

District former
INSEE code 		Area (km²) Population (2016)
Monterrein 56138 07.01 .0392
Ploërmel (administrative headquarters)000 56165 50.81 9,498

history

On March 26, 1351, during the War of the Breton Succession (Ploërmel was under English occupation from 1350 to 1370), the famous Thirty Tournament took place halfway between Ploërmel and Josselin near the town . In 1828 a memorial obelisk was erected at the same place .

Standard-gauge railways from Montauban , Châteaubriant and Questembert once met at Ploërmel station ; the Chemins de fer du Morbihan had also connected the city to their meter gauge network. All routes are out of service and dismantled.

Population development
year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2009
Residents 5,723 5,907 6.218 6,563 6,996 7,525 9.008

Attractions

Allée couverte from Haut-Bézon
In the old City
  • Remains of the fortifications from 1175
  • The Carmelite Monastery (13th century)
  • The "blue chapel" of Sainte-Marie-des-Carmes (19th century)
In the ville close
In the neighborhood

Town twinning

Miscellaneous

  • On December 10, 2006, a nine-meter-high bronze statue of Pope John Paul II was unveiled in the city , a gift from the sculptor Zurab Tsereteli , honorary citizen of Ploërmel; there was considerable resistance to this statue, especially since it has been forbidden in France since 1905 to display religious symbols in public places. The monument was removed in 2018 and relocated to a nearby site that belongs to the Roman Catholic Church and is therefore private.
  • Paul Anselin, Mayor of Ploërmel, received the Big Brother Award 2006 because - despite the low crime rate - he installed or wanted to install 50 surveillance cameras in a city with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants.

Born in Ploërmel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decree of the Prefecture on the formation of the Commune nouvelle Ploërmel of December 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ Population figures retrospectively from January 1, 2016
Essays
  • Bulletin archéologique de l'Association Bretonne / Série 3 , vol. 28 (1910). In this:
    • Pp. 3–9: Xavier de Bellevue: Résumé de l'histoire de Ploërmel .
    • P. 10–19: Xavier de Bellevue: Tuault de la Bouvrie, dernier sénéchal de la Sénéchaussée de Ploërmel, Député aux états généraux .
    • P. 26: Xavier de Bellevue: Monographie de l'église Saint Armel de Ploërmel .
    • P. 56–68: Hervé du Halgouët: Ploërmel, governors, syndics et sénéchaux .
    • Pp. 135–140: Christian-Marie-Joseph Le Bouteiller: L'assemblée de Saint-Armel à Beaucé .
    • Pp. 177-182: Paul de Berthou: Notes d'un vieux Ploërmelais .
Non-fiction
  • Messire Beaudeville: La legend de Saint Armel. Mis en vers français sous forme de tragédie . L. Prud'homme, Saint-Brieuc 1855 (reprint from the 17th century; edited by Sigismond Ropartz).
  • Xavier de Bellevue, Ploërmel. Ville et sénéchaussée . Livre d'Histoire, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84373-336-7 (unchanged, reprint of the Paris 1915 edition).
  • Jacky Ealet: Ploërmel (Mémoires en images). A. Sutton, Rennes 1995, ISBN 2-910-444-44-9 .
  • Émile Gilles: Au coeur de la Bretagne. De Pontivy à Locminé, Josselin à Ploërmel . C. Anger, Pontivy 1912 (preface by JM Bellec)
  • JF Lagneau: Maison des Marmousets . Ministère de la culture et de la francophonie, DRAC, Ploërmel / Morbihan around 1920.
  • Abbé Marmagnant: Histoire de Ploërmel . Éditions H. Calindré, Ploërmel around 1915 (2 vols.)
  • Michel de Mauny: De Josselin à Ploërmel . Édition Ouest-France, Rennes 1977, ISBN 2-85882-012-0 .
  • Yvon Renard: Ploërmel et son église Saint-Armel . Édition Lecuyer, Lyon 1981 (reprint of the edition Lyon 1968).
  • Hélène Roinel: Ploërmel cité ducale et sa région , impr. Le Ploërmelais, Ploërmel, 1987.
  • Sigismond Ropartz: Histoire de Ploërmel (Monographies des villes et villages de France; Vol. 764). Res univers, PAris 1992, ISBN 2-87760-715-1 (EA under the title Notice sur la ville Ploërmel , Paris 1864).
Fiction

Web links

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