Plomeur

Plomeur
region	Brittany
Department	Finistère
Arrondissement	Quimper
Canton	Plonéour Lanvern
Community association	Pays Bigouden Sud
Coordinates	47 ° 50 ′  N , 4 ° 17 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′  N , 4 ° 17 ′  W
height	0-37 m
surface	29.69 km 2
Residents	3,774 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	127 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	29120
INSEE code	29171
Website	http://www.plomeur.com/

Plomeur ( Breton Ploveur ) is a French commune with 3774 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Finistère department and belongs to the canton of Plonéour-Lanvern .

location

The place is located in the southwest of Brittany near the Atlantic coast .

Quimper is 21 kilometers northeast, Brest 62 kilometers north and Paris around 500 kilometers east.

traffic

At Quimper there are the next exits on the expressway E 60 (Brest - Nantes ) and a regional train station on the mostly 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	1903	1916	2263	2852	3272	3203	3689	3774
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Sainte-Thumette church

This relatively powerful church building was only built on the eve of the French Revolution in 1760 on the ruins of an earlier church according to the plans of the architect Augustin Regnault from Brest. On some square columns and arches you can still read parts of the previous building dating from 1673.

Sainte Thumette

Saint Thumette, also Tumette or Tunvez, was a sister of Saint Enéour and one of those eleven thousand virgins who accompanied the Breton St. Ursula on her way to and from Rome. Like St. Ursula, she is said to have been martyred in Cologne in 383. Chapels have also been named after her in nearby Kérity and Landunvez

See also : The Breton Saint Ursula of Cologne

Chapelle de Beuzec

Beuzec was a municipality until the revolution. Here was the location of their church dedicated to Saint Budoc. Only the choir remains of the church building from the 12th century, whose large windows with four lancets from the 14th century are still remarkable. The nave was demolished in the nineteenth century. The interior of the chapel has been looked after since 1993. The Kalvarienberg and a restored historic fountain are in the immediate vicinity.

Notre-Dame-de-Tréminou

Gothic chapel from the 15th / 16th centuries Century.

Chapelle Saint-Côme et Saint Damien

Only the tower and two bay windows, an angel and a clergyman, remain of the former chapel from the seventeenth century in this new building from the nineteenth century. The other components, such as B. the southern door and windows are from the nineteenth century. The chapel was dedicated to the twin brothers Saint Côme et Saint Damien.

Saint Côme et Saint Damien

The holy twin brothers Cosmas and Damian were doctors and are venerated as Christian martyrs not only in Brittany, so u. a. as a church patron in Bremen, Essen and Gau-Algesheim.

Champs des tulipes

Outside the village of Plomeur, since 1960 in Kerugou, in the direction of La Torche (the torch), the Dutch have found new sources of income growing tulips, hyacinths and irises on more than 100 hectares and built one of the largest onion flower plants in France here. Favored by the prevailing climate here, you can see here in spring u. a. unexpected blooming tulip fields. A visit to these private fields is possible by appointment.

Dolmen

The Tuchenn Pol complex dolmen lies on either side of the Route de Kerpape road about 350 m south of the village of Kerhan and south of Ploemeur. The dolmen of Penker ar Bloaz is nearby.

Culture

Fete de fleurs à Plomeur

Every year the municipality of Plomeur organizes a flower festival, which is very attractive and continues to develop

Bagad Cap Caval

In 1984, the Breton music group Bagad Cap Caval , which has meanwhile won several international awards, was founded in Plomeur , with Bagad being the Breton equivalent of Scottish pipe bands; Cap Caval was the historical name of this region (Pays de Bigouden) .

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  town hall

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  Sainte Thumette Church

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  Chapelle de Tréminou

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  Chapelle de Beuzec , remains of a former church building

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  Chapelle StCôme-St-Damien , new building from the 19th century

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  Plage de la Torche

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 1208-1225.

Web links

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

• History and photos of the Sainte Thumette church in Plomeur
• 17th century statue of Saint Thumette from Névez
• Video of the blooming hyacinths of Plomeur (French)
• Flower fields at Plomeur onYouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saint Thumette of Brittany (Dutch).
2. ↑ La chapelle de beuzec à plomeur (French).
3. ↑ Pictures of the champs des tulipes by Plomeuer
4. ↑ Fete des fleurs à Plomeur ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 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.