Carhaix-Plouguer

Carhaix-Plouguer ( Breton Karaez-Plougêr in ) is a common department of the Finistere, in the area Brittany, in France.

History

It is allowed for a long time that Carhaix was at the time Gallo-Roman (and perhaps front) the town of Vorgium , chief town of the city of the Osismes. It is mentioned in the Table of Peutinger.

Recent and not completed excavations showed an urban development which one did not suspect.

Archaeological excavations started at the 18th century and now methodical for 10 years have revealed more and more vestiges of buildings. Many Gallo-Roman vestiges were found there and they interested in its time Theophilus Malo Corret of the Tower of Auvergne.

The importance of the agglomeration was measured a long time by the star shaped network of ancient ways and the fact that an aqueduct of which there remain several elements was built to collect the water of a source located at 13 kilometers. If Louis the Piles came in Carhaix (1), it is undoubtedly to remain in the castle of the time which was to hardly be different from that had built the Romans. It is in this same castle as Thomas of England place the marriage of Tristan and Iseult with the White Hands and its death in which Iseult the Blonde comes to join it.

Is this a chance if Conomor, count of Poher and king of Domnonée at the 6th century was brought closer to a Marcus Quonomorus reigning in British Cornouailles and in which some see the king Marc' H, uncle of Tristan? Poher is the Louse-Kaer , the country of the City and the area whose Carhaix always says being the capital.

This commune is known for facts related to the Révolte of the Red Bonnets in 1675.

(1): the identification of the place, Corophesium , still makes debate among the experts between Carhaix and Coray

Origin of the name

The Breton name is Karaez (spelled Karahes formerly based on the prefix “Kaer” which means “strengthened place”). With the Middle Ages, Carhaix was only one truce of Plouguer (Plou-Kaer = the parish of the City or the castle) having its church tréviale holy Trémeur. Plouguer whose church is dedicated to Pierre saint, indirect evidence of seniority, is the seat of the primitive parish which draws its name from strengthened in the past site that it includes. Become common to the French revolution, Carhaix and Plouguer amalgamated in 1956 and took the name of Carhaix-Plouguer.

Administration

Demography

Demographic trends of Carhaix-Plouguer (amalgamated communes of Carhaix and Plouguer)

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Economy

Antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Morlaix.

Places and monuments

Carhaix - at the time Vorgium - was the chief town of the Gallic people of Osismes after the Roman conquest. One finds many vestiges Gallo-Roman in the city.

Parish church Saint-Pierre de Plouguer. Built at the 11th century on the old commune of Plouguer (attached in 1956 to the commune of Carhaix), transformed at the 16th century then into 1746, it partly was destroyed by a fire on December 9th, 1923
Ancien convent of Hospital and the vault Our-Lady-of-Grace. Founded in 1663 per Anne of Chastel de Kerlech, its construction was completed towards 1698
the House of the Seneshal (where is today the Tourist bureau)

Personalities related to the commune

Births

Theophilus Malo Corret of the Tower of Auvergne
Felix Jobbé-Duval

Death

Cultural events

Festival of the Old Plow (July)

Transport

Carhaix, from its geographical position in Brittany center, was an important rail junction. The Breton Network, created at the end of the XIXe century, to disenclose central Brittany, indeed consisted of five lines laid out out of star around Carhaix:

Carhaix - Morlaix, open in 1891
Carhaix - Guingamp, open in 1893, 1967 setting with normal Way
Carhaix - Loudéac, open between 1896 and 1902
Carhaix - Rosporden, open in 1898
Carhaix - Châteaulin, open between 1904 and 1907

The Breton Network added up more than 420 km of metric gauge tracks (i.e. of ways whose width was of 1 meter, cuts used for the secondary lines). The last lines with metric gauge track were closed in 1967. Today, one can visit the only engine of the Breton Network which remained in area (n° E415) close to the station of Carhaix.

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