Saint-Gilles-les-Bois
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Saint-Gilles-les-Bois Sant-Jili-ar-C'hoad |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Cotes-d'Armor | |
| Arrondissement | Guingamp | |
| Canton | Plouha | |
| Community association | Leff Armor Community | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 39 ′ N , 3 ° 6 ′ W | |
| height | 39-100 m | |
| surface | 9.45 km 2 | |
| Residents | 432 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 46 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 22290 | |
| INSEE code | 22293 | |
_%C3%89glise_03.JPG) Saint-Gilles village church |
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Saint-Gilles-les-Bois ( Breton : Sant-Jili-ar-C'hoad ) is a French commune with 432 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany . It belongs to the arrondissement of Guingamp and the canton of Plouha . The residents call themselves Saint Gillois (es) .
geography
Saint-Gilles-les-Bois is located around 12 km (as the crow flies) north of Guingamp in the central north of Brittany. Most of the streams form a natural municipality boundary.
history
In 1325 the place was first mentioned by name in the Latin form Sancti Aegidi de Pommerit Vicecomitis . Up until the French Revolution, various noble families administered the area of the present-day community. From 1793 to 1801, Saint-Gilles-les-Bois was part of the Pontrieux district . From 1793 to 1801 the municipality was the canton capital of the canton Saint Gilles le Vicomte . After that, the place belonged to the canton of Pontrieux until 2015 . Administratively, Saint-Gilles-les-Bois has also been part of the Guingamp arrondissement since 1801 . In the period after the French Revolution, the community was sometimes called Bellevue . In 1833 the hamlet of Kerionou was given to the municipality of Trévérec .
Population development
| year | 1793 | 1800 | 1821 | 1866 | 1911 | 1921 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
| Residents | 1.011 | 846 | 1,051 | 1,047 | 738 | 640 | 550 | 512 | 471 | 451 | 421 | 401 | 408 | 406 |
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The increasing mechanization of agriculture and the numerous deaths during the First World War led to a drop in the number of inhabitants to the lowest levels in the present.
Attractions
- Manor Manoir de La Villeneuve (also Manoir du Traumeu) in Kernevez from 1620
- Saint-Gilles village church (choir 14th, mostly 17th, nave and side chapel with baptismal font 18th century); since 1925 partly a monument historique
- Sainte-Anne chapel from 1880
- Group of three houses with a common long roof (18th and 19th centuries)
- several other houses and a farm in Gueven from the 18th and 19th centuries
- Mill Moulin de Brestic on the Ruisseau de Goaz Mab stream
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , p. 1107.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of the cultural assets of Saint-Gilles-les-Bois (French)
- ↑ Overview of the sights (French) ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
