Rouans
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Rouans Rodent |
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| region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Loire-Atlantique | |
| Arrondissement | Nantes | |
| Canton | Machecoul | |
| Community association | Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 11 ′ N , 1 ° 52 ′ W | |
| height | 0-60 m | |
| surface | 37.73 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,956 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 78 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 44640 | |
| INSEE code | 44145 | |
| Website | http://www.rouans.fr/ | |
 Town Hall (Mairie) of Rouans |
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Rouans ( Breton : Rodent ; Gallo : Roant ) is a French municipality with 2956 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Loire-Atlantique in the Region Pays de la Loire . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Nantes and the Canton of Machecoul (until 2015: Canton Le Pellerin ). The inhabitants are called Rouansais .
geography
Rouans is located on the Acheneau and Canal de Buzay around twenty kilometers southwest of Nantes in the historic Pays de Retz landscape . Rouans is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Le Pellerin in the north and northeast, Cheix-en-Retz in the east, Port-Saint-Père in the southeast, Saint-Hilaire-de-Chaléons in the south, Chaumes-en-Retz in the southwest and Vue in the west and northwest.
The municipality is located in the Gros Plant du Pays Nantais wine-growing region .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
| Residents | 1,520 | 1,443 | 1,447 | 1,710 | 1,891 | 2.131 | 2,498 | 2,734 |
Attractions
- Remains of the Cistercian abbey of Buzay , founded in 1135 by Bernhard von Clairvaux, closed in 1735
- Saint-Martin church, built in the early 20th century,
Tower of the Buzay Monastery
Saint Martin Church
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Personalities
- Anne-Françoise Moreau (1866–1900), Franciscan and missionary (religious name Marie de Saint-Just ), canonization 2000
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Loire-Atlantique . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-040-X , pp. 900-904.
