Landerneau

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Coordinates: 48°27′06″N 4°14′53″W / 48.45167, -4.24806

Commune of Landerneau
Landerne
Location
Coordinates	48°27′06″N 4°14′53″W / 48.45167, -4.24806
Administration
Country	France
Region	Bretagne
Department	Finistère
Arrondissement	Brest
Canton	Landerneau (chief town)
Intercommunality	C.C. du Pays de Landerneau-Daoulas
Mayor	Jean-Pierre Thomin (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	1 m–175 m
Land area¹	13.19 km²
Population² (1999)	14,281
- Density	1,083/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	29103/ 29800
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Landerneau (Landerne in Breton) is a town and commune in Finistère, Brittany. It is capital of the canton of the same name.

It lies at the mouth of the Elorn River which divides the Breton provinces of Cornouaille and Léon, 20 km east of Brest. The name means "(religious) enclosure of St Ténénan (Welsh: Tyrnog)": allegedly a Welshman who also had Llans in the Vale of Clwyd, North Wales and in Somerset, and who moved to Brittany in the 7th century. It was an important centre of the flax and linen industries in the 16th and 17th centuries. Today it is the main agricultural market in northwest Brittany.

A picturesque feature of the town centre is the 16th century house-lined bridge (the Pont de Rohan) across the Elorn.

Landerneau is twinned with the towns of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, Wales and Hünfeld in Germany.

[edit] Demographics

Inhabitants of Landerneau are called Landernéens.

As of the census of 1999, the town has a population of 14,281.

[edit] See also

• Communes of the Finistère department

[edit] External links

• Landerneau Website (French)
• French Ministry of Culture list for Landerneau (French)