Saint-Christophe-du-Bois
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region | Pays de la Loire | |
Department | Maine-et-Loire | |
Arrondissement | Cholet | |
Canton | Saint-Macaire-en-Mauges | |
Community association | Agglomération du Choletais | |
Coordinates | 47 ° 2 ′ N , 0 ° 57 ′ W | |
height | 53-141 m | |
surface | 21.75 km 2 | |
Residents | 2,755 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 127 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 49280 | |
INSEE code | 49269 | |
Website | saintchristophedubois.mairie49.fr |
Saint-Christophe-du-Bois is a French commune with 2,755 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Maine-et-Loire in the region of Pays de la Loire . The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Cholet and the canton of Saint-Macaire-en-Mauges (until 2015: canton of Cholet-3 ). The inhabitants are called Christophoriens .
geography
Saint-Christophe-du-Bois is located about six kilometers southwest of Cholet in the Mauges countryside . The Moine limits the community in the north. Saint-Christophe-du-Bois is surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of La Séguinière in the north, Cholet in the east and northeast, Mortagne-sur-Sèvre in the south (and its district of Évrunes in the southwest), Sèvremoine in the west and La Romagne in the northwest.
Population development
1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
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987 | 1,029 | 1,302 | 1,885 | 2,282 | 2,501 | 2,658 | 2,607 |
Attractions
- Church from the 15th century, destroyed by the Huguenots in the religious war, rebuilt in the 16th century
- Saint-Christophe Church, built in 1860
- Rectory
- Former La Haye priory from the 12th century
- La Proutière Chapel, built in 1689
- Town hall from 1961/62
- La Rousse Bridge, built on a Roman road in Gallo-Roman times
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de Maine-et-Loire . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-117-1 , pp. 528-530.
Web links
- Monuments historiques (objects) in Saint-Christophe-du-Bois in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture