Saint-Benoist-sur-Mer

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Saint-Benoist-sur-Mer
Coat of arms of Saint-Benoist-sur-Mer
Saint-Benoist-sur-Mer (France)
Saint-Benoist-sur-Mer
region Pays de la Loire
Department Vendée
Arrondissement Les Sables d'Olonne
Canton Mareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais
Community association Vendée Grand Littoral
Coordinates 46 ° 25 ′  N , 1 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 46 ° 25 ′  N , 1 ° 21 ′  W
height 1–26 m
surface 15.53 km 2
Residents 474 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 31 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 85540
INSEE code
Website http://www.saintbenoistsurmer.fr/

Saint-Benoist-sur-Mer is a French village with 474 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Vendée in the region of Pays de la Loire ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Les Sables d'Olonne and the canton of Mareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais (until 2015: canton of Moutiers-les-Mauxfaits ). The inhabitants are called Bénédictins .

geography

Saint-Benoist-sur-Mer is located near the Bay of Biscay , about 27 kilometers south-southeast of La Roche-sur-Yon on the salt marshes of the Lay . Saint-Benoist-sur-Mer is surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of La Jonchère in the north and north-west, Saint-Cyr-en-Talmondais in the north and north-east, Curzon in the north-east, Lairoux in the east and north-east, and Saint-Denis-du-Payré in the east and southeast, Grues in the south and Angles in the west and southwest.

history

A Roman port may have existed here between the first and third centuries AD.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012
Residents 399 350 303 314 283 319 338 402
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint-Benoît church, originally built in the 11th century, occupied by the Huguenots at the beginning of the 17th century , recaptured by the royalists a little later (1621), monument historique since 1957
Saint-Benoît church

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Vendée. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-118-X , pp. 668-671.

Web links

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