Chantepie

Chantepie is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany. Its inhabitants is called Cantepiens.

Geography

Situation

Commune located at the South-east of Rennes, 4,5km of the center of Rennes, in High-Brittany, department of Ille-et-Vilaine (35). The historical core of Chantepie is located on the interfluve Blosne - Vilaine, to 6 km of the confluence between these two rivers. The territory of the commune includes/understands also part of the valley of the Blosne. Altitude varies from 32 to 77 meters (not low in the thalweg of Blosne).

Geomorphology and hydrology

The rocks with the outcrop are primarily eroded base, without alluvial deposits (except with the accesses of the Blosne): they are green Schistes Briovérien S azo, faded on the first meters, and presenting many more in-depth diaclases, because of the gélifraction würmienne (at the time of the last Glaciation, freezing prevailed until 200m of depth). This deterioration physical (and chemical superficially) allows the presence of a ground water and well;

Habitat

These green schists, although faded, are sufficiently hard to prevent the realization of cellars. The houses are thus without foundations. For anecdote, this commune had been selected to carry out experimental fallout shelters, which proved to be impossible because of this characteristic.

It is originally about a rural parish, made up at the time modern (?), forming a village-street around the Main roads, of orientation E-O (Road of Châteaugiron formerly, then Street National, and now Which occurred Andre-Bonnin, name of a mayor committed suicide in 1993) and with a core grouped around its church. The old modest dwellings reflect local geology (schist walls about friable because faded); some longères modest also consist of cob: clay (taken on the spot) interfered with gravels and straws. On the other hand, certain hillocks, the manors, the church, are composed of materials considered as more " nobles" : Armorican sandstones resulting from the careers of synclinal - anticlines of the South of Rennes, red schists of Montfort, granites of Ferns for the angles of the walls. Not being taken on the spot, these materials were more expensive.

Beyond this core of origin, years 1970 and 1980 saw an extension of the urban part of the commune. A first movement was done towards north and is, but it was stopped by the presence of industrial park SE of Rennes and the limit of the common neighbor of Cesson-Sévigné. Another movement was done towards the South (district of the Two Brooks), until the course of Blosne; it was stopped by the presence of an interesting natural zone (Valley of Blosne and Bois of Sœuvres, including/understanding species of birds and batrachians rare: wood warbler, triton marbled, crested their his hybrid. Is, corresponding to 70% of the communal territory, is rural.

Biogeography and rural geography

One finds there, on the rural part of the communal territory, the features of the Bocage gallo. It is a scrap-metal, relatively poor in cash (biogeographic poverty characteristic of the Eastern Brittany), which was re-allocated, and whose meshs are very widened. The schists briovériens produce a heavy clay, with a good capacity of cation exchange. It results from it that the grounds are easily which may undergo beneficiation by manures. On the rural part of the communal territory, there were about fifteen farms; the periphery of the village core had - traditional fact in agrarian geography - closed gardens and market gardenings. A market-gardener, Mr. Jouneau, had produced tomatos considered on a European scale there . The current land pressure is at the origin of the disappearance of this type of space.

Zones of activity

Part of industrial Park SE of Rennes belongs to Chantepie (Northern of the commune). In the South-west of Chantepie, one finds a zone artisanal and commercial, draining automobile flows coming from common the neighborhoods, with congestion saturdays and the days of point.

Urban dynamics

The current characteristic of this commune is to find themselves taken in the crown périurbaine of Rennes, and to melt themselves in its urban fabric. The current development of the commune is thus related to that of the town of Rennes. The overflow of urban fabric of Rennes on Chantepie is accentuated by a political fact of geography: the integration of the commune in Rennes Metropolis , structure which centralizes the decisions land installation.

That is characterized initially by an important land pressure reinforced by the position of Chantepie in the axis of the Métro of Rennes.

History

A priori, there exists little of sources on the history of Chantepie. This parish was, at the time of the fastening of Brittany in France (1532), the seat of a powerful seigniory, the seigniory of the Cabins. At the XVIIe century, it was with its apogee (it held High-Justice). However, it is difficult to have documents on the extension of this seigniory and the territory which it recovers. Perhaps the exploration of the files would reveal it burrows plans.

Books on the history of Chantepie exist well. However, they do not answer this type of question. It is rather of excellent collections on the localities with the list of their successive owners. For the remainder, they recall rather with the life with Chantepie during general great events (Revolution, wars…) more than the own history of the place.

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