Ploubezre

Ploubezre Ploubêr
region	Brittany
Department	Cotes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Lannion
Canton	Plestin-les-Grèves
Community association	Lannion-Trégor Communauté
Coordinates	48 ° 42 ′  N , 3 ° 27 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′  N , 3 ° 27 ′  W
height	3-114 m
surface	31.14 km 2
Residents	3,600 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	116 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	22300
INSEE code	22211
Website	http://www.ploubezre.fr/
Kergrist Castle

Ploubezre ( Breton : Ploubêr ) is a French municipality with 3600 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Côtes-d'Armor in the region of Brittany .

history

The place name is composed of the Breton words Plou ("community") and Per ("Petrus"), so it means "Petrusgemeinde". The place name was mentioned in documents as Plebe Petri in the 14th century.

Population development
year	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2009	2014
Residents	1.934	2,196	2,652	2,709	2,626	3,241	3,586

Attractions

Les cinq croix (the five crosses)

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Ploubezre

• Kergrist Castle was built in the 15th century and rebuilt in the 17th century. It is privately owned and was entered in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques (historical monuments) in 1926 ( inscrit MH ).
• The parish church of Saint Pierre from the 16th century and the wayside crosses Les cinq croix (the five crosses) from the 18th century are also monuments historiques.
• Château de Coatfrec, castle ruins from the 15th / 16th centuries Century at Ploubezre

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  Saint Pierre Church in Ploubezre

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  Château de Coatfrec near Ploubezre

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  Château de Coatilliau near Ploubezre

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , pp. 544-547.

Web links

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

• Site of the Mairie of Ploubezre
• Ploubezre in Base Mémoire (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France . tape 2 . Librairie Droz, 1996, ISBN 978-2-600-00133-5 , pp. 1046 ( in Google Books [accessed January 23, 2010]). (French)
2. ↑ Ploubezre in Base Mérimée (French) Retrieved January 23, 2010