Langonnet Langoned | |
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) The Church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, in Langonnet | |
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Location of Langonnet  | |
)  Langonnet ) Langonnet | |
| Coordinates: 48°06′23″N 3°29′32″W / 48.1064°N 3.4922°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Brittany |
| Department | Morbihan |
| Arrondissement | Pontivy |
| Canton | Gourin |
| Intercommunality | Pays du Roi Morvan |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Françoise Guillerm[1] |
| Area 1 | 85.40 km2 (32.97 sq mi) |
| Population (Jan. 2017)[2] | 1,757 |
| • Density | 21/km2 (53/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 56100 /56630 |
| Elevation | 104–292 m (341–958 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Langonnet (Breton: Langoned) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.
Geography
Langonnet is in north-west part of Cornouaille, in Lower Brittany. It's one of the few Cornouaille parishes that are now in the Morbihan department. Thus the main language was the Breton language until the advent of intensive farming after the second world war at which point the people, who were bilingual, switched to the French language.
The parish holds two main human settlements:
- the actual town of Langonnet in the south
- the town of La Trinité-Langonnet in north-east
In the south-east there's the Notre-Dame de Langonnet abbey.
The highest point of the parish the calotte Saint Joseph, a round hill whose top is at 292 meters. It offers a nice view over the surrounding area (most of the parish is at 190 meter level).
Etymology
Its Breton name is written Langoned in modern breton but it has been written differently along the years (because of different tentatives to transcribe the Breton phonetic system with the Latin alphabet):
- XIe siècle : (Lan)Chunuett
- 1152 : Langenoit
- 1161 : Langonio
- 1168 : Lanngonio
- 1301 : Lenguenet
- 1368 : Langonec
- 1368 : Langonio
- 1373 : Languenec
- 1516 : Langonet
- 1516 : Langonio
- 1536 : Langonnet
- 1574 : Langonec
- 1630 : Langouet
- Today: Langoned
The Langoned name is said to come from Lann-Conet, the monastery (See lan in Breton, llan in welsh language) of Conet[3] (or Conoit, Konoed, Kon(n)ed, Konoid = Cynwyd, Kynwyd or Kynyd in welsh), a Welsh saint that came in Brittany.
Demographics
Inhabitants of Langonnet are called in French Langonnetais, in Breton Langonediz.
Breton language
The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 27 January 2005.
See also
References
- ^ "Maires du Morbihan" (PDF). Préfecture du Morbihan. 7 July 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Orme, Nicholas (2000). OUP Oxford (ed.). The Saints of Cornwall. Oxford. p. 93. ISBN 0-19-820765-4.
External links
- Official site (in French)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- Mayors of Morbihan Association (in French)