Brennilis

Brennilis is a common department of the Finistere, in the area Brittany, in France.

Localization

Brennilis is located at the foot of the Mont Saint-Michel of Brasparts and of the marshes of the Yeun Elez.

The Lac Saint-Michel extends on 500 ha, supplied with some brooks of which the Roudouhir. Three other communes are also bordering lake: Botmeur, Brasparts and Loqueffret. The lake Saint-Michel is an artificial lake: the dam Nestavel was built on the Elez at the end them years 1930 in order to make function in a regular way the hydro-electric factory of Saint-Herbot located downstream.

Industry

Between 1962 and 1967, the experimental nuclear plant of Brennilis known as “of the Mounts of Arrée” was built by the ECA and EDF. It was an experimental reactor, an industrial prototype intended to prove the reliability of the die heavy Eau (EL). So he is baptized EL 4. Because of the low power of the engine (70 MW), and taking into account the positive French energy situation at the time, EL 4 is stopped in July 1985. Currently, the power station is in the course of dismantling. Some buildings and grounds remain empty in spite of the installation of certain companies on this park.

Administration

Events

Association the workshops of the BOND of Brennilis proposes all the year of the Ateliers of writing, reading in residence and a service of writing of Récits of life.

It organizes each year in October the event Goual Ar Skrid celebrates writing, in partnership with the coffee-bookstore " other Rive" of Berrien, around an author of the area and on the topic of the Voyage.

In 2006, the author was Jack Kerouac in which the ancestors are originating in the area and the destination was mythical the Route 66 and the North America.

For the edition 2007, the author is Victor Segalen and the country of destination is China with a contest of Carnets of voyage.

Places known as

August 1st

Births

August 1st

Death

August 1st

External bonds

  • Notre-Dame Church by the text and the image

More:

  • the small train Rosporden-Plouescat , Annick Fleitour, Editions Undertow, Quimper, 2001. small railway line to narrow gauge railway which served Brennilis of 1912 to 1935

  • http://www.brennilis.com Site of the commune

Monuments

Some remarkable sites are to be discovered on the commune:

  • the Church Notre Dame de Brennilis classified 15th century.

  • the archeological site “rear Ti Boudiged”, dolmen megalithic.
  • the natural reserve of Vénec, whose “house of the beavers” is a natural prolongation.

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