Saint-Broladre
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Ille-et-Vilaine | |
Arrondissement | Saint Malo | |
Canton | Dol-de-Bretagne | |
Community association | Pays de Dol et de la Baie du Mont Saint-Michel | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 35 ′ N , 1 ° 39 ′ W | |
height | 1-102 m | |
surface | 23.81 km 2 | |
Residents | 1,132 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 48 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 35120 | |
INSEE code | 35259 | |
Chapel of Sainte Anne des Greves |
Saint-Broladre is a French commune with 1,132 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in the northeast of the Brittany region .
geography
The municipality of Saint-Broladre stretches from the coast of the English Channel over flat, intensely agricultural marshland ( Marais de Dol ) to around 100 meters above sea level in the south. The coastline of the Wadden Sea, which is exposed to strong tides, is diked. Ten kilometers to the northeast is the rocky island of Mont-Saint-Michel .
The district of Rougé, four kilometers south of the town center, belongs to Saint-Broladre .
Neighboring municipalities of Saint-Broladre are Roz-sur-Couesnon and Saint-Marcan in the east, Sains in the southeast, La Boussac in the south, Baguer-Pican in the southwest and Cherrueix in the west.
history
population
year | Residents |
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1962 | 884 |
1968 | 946 |
1975 | 881 |
1982 | 865 |
1990 | 992 |
1999 | 1014 |
2004 | 1017 |
2017 | 1132 |
Community partnerships
Since 1995 there is a community partnership with Neuenkirchen , Germany. At the beginning of May (Whitsun weekend) mutual visits by larger delegations take place. If a delegation from Neuenkirchen goes to Saint-Broladre in one year, a delegation from Saint-Broladre comes to Neuenkirchen the following year.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-072-8 , pp. 1083-1087.