Batz-on-Sea

See also: Batz

Batz-on-Sea , //, is a common French, located in the department of the Loire-Atlantique and the area Pays of the Loire ( Breton Bourc' h-Baz in , Borg-with-Baz in Gallo and '' Borough-with-Batz '', //, in the local language running).

Its inhabitants is called the Batziens and Batziennes .

Geography

The commune is located between Croisic and Pouliguen. Most of the territory makes up of saline Marais.

Batz-on-sea includes/understands the borough itself and four villages: Kervalet, Trégaté, Roffiat and Kermoisan.

Batz-on-sea is located at 27 km in the west of Saint-Nazaire, 80 km of Vannes and 87 km of Nantes.

The communes bordering are Guérande, Pouliguen and Croisic.

Language

See also: Breton of Batz-on-Sea

The area of Batz was Breton-speaking. The Breton remained the vernacular language until in the years 1920. The last speakers of birth died out in the years 1960. A lady died in 1988 at the 99 years age had spoken the Breton one at the village about Kervalet until the sixteen years age, that is to say until 1905.

History

In 945, the Duke of Brittany, Alain Bores-Torte founded with Batz-on-Sea a priory dedicated to Saint Guénolé and gave it to a Benedictine, the abbot Jean de Landévennec (the Abbaye of Landévennec was created at the 5th century by Saint Guénolé in the Presqu'île of Crozon, Finistere). The monks supported the development of the area while devoting themselves to the cultures and the maintenance of the salt-water marshes, and started again the trade of the salt.

Croisic was detached from Batz-on-Sea to the 14th century and Pouliguen in 1854.

Balzac remained with the borough at Madam of Valette, with the Calm Home, with Laure de Berny. It wrote there a drama at the edge of the sea , short romantic account which have as a framework Croisic and the Grande Coast.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the vault of Our-Lady-of-Murié or Vault of murié, improperly today called vault of the mulberry tree . Indeed, the term mulberry tree comes from murié , deformation of Latin muria who means brine, or by extension salt-water marsh.

About the middle of the 15th century, the plague devastated the Brittany. To protect itself some, Batziens made the wish rebuild an old sanctuary then ruins some, located close to the church Saint Guénolé. At that time, the trade of salt was flourishing but the local resources proved nevertheless insufficient. To finance construction, the Duc of Brittany Jean V asked for to the pope Eugene IV of grant indulgences to faithful which would visit the vault and which by their gifts would help with the construction of the sanctuary. The building was completed in 1496

  • the Saint-Guénolé church or Saint-Guignolai

The building is built on the site of a church dedicated to Saint Cyr and Sainte Julitte, that the monks of Landévennec placed under the protection of Saint Guénolé.

Its Gothic style blazing completion date of the E century and the beginning of the E century. The tower dates from the E century. Originally the church was surmounted by a wood bell-tower, victim of the lightning in 1603 and 1657. A tax taken on each wine jug sold with the detail on the territory of Batz-on-Sea made it possible to finance construction of it. Now, one can go up at the top of the church to observe the panorama.

  • the Museum of the salt-water marshes

  • the Museum of the large blockhouse
  • the beach Valentine
  • the mill of cliff: built with the E century in the dunes which extend between Batz-on-Sea and Croisic, it was renovated in 1992 and is always in activity.

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