Vigneux-de-Bretagne
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Vigneux-de-Bretagne Gwinieg-Breizh |
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| region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Loire-Atlantique | |
| Arrondissement | Châteaubriant-Ancenis | |
| Canton | La Chapelle-sur-Erdre | |
| Community association | Erdre et Gesvres | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 20 ′ N , 1 ° 44 ′ W | |
| height | 24-92 m | |
| surface | 54.68 km 2 | |
| Residents | 6,030 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 110 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 44360 | |
| INSEE code | 44217 | |
| Website | http://www.vigneuxdebretagne.fr/ | |
 La Bretonnière Castle Park |
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Vigneux-de-Bretagne ( Breton : Gwinieg-Breizh ) is a French municipality with 6030 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Loire-Atlantique in the Region Pays de la Loire . It belongs to the arrondissement of Châteaubriant-Ancenis and is part of the canton of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre (until 2015: canton of Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc ).
geography
Vigneux-de-Bretagne is located on the Gesvres and Cens rivers , which have their source here. Vigneux-de-Bretagne is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Notre-Dame-des-Landes in the north, Treillières in the east, Orvault in the southeast, Sautron in the south, Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc in the southwest, Cordemais and Le Temple-de-Bretagne in the west and Fay-de-Bretagne in the northwest.
Route Nationale 165 runs through the municipality .
The village of La Paquelais belongs to the municipality and was used as a camp for the usurper on the Count's chair of Brittany, Lambert, 840.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
| Residents | 1.941 | 1.926 | 2,274 | 3,183 | 4.026 | 4,712 | 5,165 | 5.514 |
Attractions
- Vigneux church from 1860
- La Bretonnière Castle and Park
- Buron Castle
- Castle of Bois-Rignoux
- Nine mills
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Loire-Atlantique . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-040-X , pp. 1052-1057.
