Plogoff
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Plogoff Plougoñ |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Quimper | |
| Canton | Douarnenez | |
| Community association | Cap Sizun-Pointe du Raz | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 2 ′ N , 4 ° 40 ′ W | |
| height | 0-80 m | |
| surface | 11.73 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,229 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 105 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29770 | |
| INSEE code | 29168 | |
| Website | http://www.plogoff-pointeduraz.com/ | |
 Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage chapel |
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Plogoff ( Breton Plougoñ ) is a French commune with 1229 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Finistère department in the Brittany region in the westernmost tip of France.
geography
The municipality is located on the Cap Sizun peninsula with a large bird sanctuary and is still today a symbol of the fight against nuclear power plants . The facility planned there at the end of the 1970s was prevented by long-lasting, not only non-violent resistance from the local population with national and international support. The anti-nuclear motive was superimposed by anti-centralist tendencies aimed at regaining Breton identity (language, culture, partial political autonomy).
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 2569 | 2547 | 2359 | 2131 | 1902 | 1563 | 1388 | 1229 |
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Worth seeing
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Plogoff
- Parish Church of St-Collodan
- Pointe you Raz
- Baie des Trépassés
- Pointe you Van
- Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage chapel. The artistic glazing was created by the glass painter's workshop Ely, which initially worked in Nantes and later in Kassel-Wehlheiden.
Events
- 2nd Sunday in July: Pardon Notre Dame du Bon Voyage (.. the good trip)
- 1st Sunday in August: Pardon Notre Dame des Naufrages (.. of the castaways)
Personalities
- Olive Danzé (1906–1968), Benedictine, mystic and stigmatized
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 1161-1169.
Web links
Commons : Plogoff - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Götz J. Pfeiffer: "owes the foundation of this art industry to the Ely family". Ely family and glass painting workshop in Kassel, Nantes and Wehlheiden . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies . tape 121 , 2016, p. 175-200 .