Ploemeur

Commune in Brittany, France

Ploemeur Plañvour
Commune
The town hall in Ploemeur
Coat of arms
Location of Ploemeur
(2020–2026)		Ronan Loas^[1]
Area ¹	39.72 km² (15.34 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	18,591
• Density	470/km² (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	56162 /56270
Elevation	−1–55 m (−3.3–180.4 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ploemeur (French pronunciation: [plømœʁ]; Breton: Plañvour), sometimes written instead as Plœmeur, is a commune in the Morbihan department in the region of Brittany in north-western France. It is a western suburb of Lorient.

Population

The inhabitants are called the Ploemeurois. The municipality launched a linguistic plan to promote and stimulate the use of the Breton language through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 18 April 2006.

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Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	7,089	—
1975	9,565	+4.37%
1982	13,455	+5.00%
1990	17,637	+3.44%
1999	18,304	+0.41%
2007	18,509	+0.14%
2012	17,875	−0.69%
2017	17,853	−0.02%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Etymology

The current name of the city of Ploemeur comes from the old Breton Plo Meur meaning "Big Parish".

Geography

Ploemeur is close to Lorient (Breton: An Oriant), a sub-prefecture of Morbihan.

Photographs of the Port of Lomener

The pier
The Island of Groix at the horizon
End of the day on the port

People

Nathalie Appéré, Mayor of Rennes
Stanislas Dupuy de Lôme (1816 in the Château de Soye - †1885), who built the first armored battleship.
Yoann Gourcuff, born on 11 July 1986, is a footballer of Olympique Lyonnais and of the France national team.
Diego Yesso, footballer

International relations

Ploemeur is twinned with:

References

^ "Maires du Morbihan" (PDF). Préfecture du Morbihan. 7 July 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Infoveriti (2011). "KOMITET MIAST BLIŹNIACZYCH NOWA DĘBA - FERMOY - PLOEMEUR - KRS - InfoVeriti". infoveriti.pl. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
^ Nowa Dęba City Council (2011). "Oficjalna strona Miasta i Gminy Nowa Dęba / Organizacje pozarządowe". nowadeba.pl. Archived from the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2011.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ploemeur.

Official site of Ploemeur
Unofficial site on the history of Ploemeur and its monuments
Ploemeur/Plañvour's page on the portal of the towns and cities of Brittany
Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)