Soucelles
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| local community | Rives-du-Loir-en-Anjou | |
| region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Maine-et-Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Angers | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 34 ′ N , 0 ° 25 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 49140 | |
| Former INSEE code | 49337 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | http://soucelles.fr/ | |
Soucelles is a town and commune Déléguée in the French municipality of Rives-du-Loir-en-Anjou with 2,570 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Maine-et-Loire in the region of Pays de la Loire . The inhabitants are called Soucellois .
On January 1, 2019, the municipality of Soucelles merged with Villevêque to form the Commune nouvelle Rives-du-Loir-en-Anjou. Since then it has had the status of a Commune déléguée. The municipality of Soucelles was part of the Arrondissement of Angers and the canton of Angers-6 (until 2015: Tiercé ).
geography
Soucelles is in the Baugeois countryside . The Loir River limits the Commune déléguée to the south. Neighboring communities of Soucelles were Tiercé in the north and north-west, Montreuil-sur-Loir in the east and north-east, Corzé in the south-east, Villevêque in the south and Briollay in the west.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
| Residents | 647 | 672 | 906 | 1,348 | 1,742 | 1,858 | 2,458 | 2,609 |
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Rives-du-Loir-en-Anjou
- Dolmen de la Pierre Cesée , Monument historique since 1910
- Menhir Doigt de César , Monument historique since 1975
- Roche-Fouques chapel, historic monument since 1973
- Soucelles Castle, monument historique since 2006
Viticulture
The place belongs to the Anjou wine region .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de Maine-et-Loire . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-117-1 , pp. 1307-1309.
