Kerfeunteun

Kerfeunteun translates in the acts by “Villa Subsidence”, that is to say “the village of the fountain” was a very old parish in the North of Quimper whose parish church was only to 2 km of the cathedral.

It owed its name with a fountain ( feunteun into Breton) to which was lent miraculous properties. Holy Corentin, according to its '' Vie '' would have made a miracle there while allowing the old hermit, Saint Primel, to find a water more accessible while making spout out this new source close to its hut which will become the church dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

In same the Life , a scene with the antiquated relents is placed one May 1st, day which is at the same time that of the festival of Lug (see Lugnasad), Irish god and that of the dedication of the cathedral. A foreigner would have been saved divine anger by the saint bishop after having killed a Anguille which lived in the basin of the fountain.

The church, built towards 1520, is still been next to by the cemetery and the fountain. One finds a stained glass of there 1550, the Tree of Jessé and a pulpit of VIIIe, Its modest bell-tower indicates well that its parish remained a long time rural before its altogether recent absorption by the agglomeration. Near to a town of being able, Kerfeunteun accommodated many manors périurbains of which 18 were indexed. Much is noble residences surrounded by their farm.

Before at the medieval age, there are hardly but one or two steles of the Âge of iron and a thin Gallo-Roman furniture with Kermoguer which held the attention of the archeologists.

In 1791, the parish becomes common and it is increased by that of Cuzon, located at the East beyond the brook of Frout. This one seems of old foundation, because the church is dedicated to Saint-Pierre and attested in the past saint éponyme with Locuon (Morbihan).

At the XXe century, the commune becomes populated overflow of Quimper, whose territory is exiguous and more and more of equipment related to the city must be installed there.

It is what leads to fusion in Large Quimper in 1960 with Ergué-Armel and Penhars.

Kerfeunteun enters then an intense phase of urbanization with the construction of thousands of houses on the reverse of the plate inclined towards Quimper.

It accommodates the great stage, then the retail park of Gourvily. The avenue of free France where in 1942 the first clandestine radio program took place is an increasingly important North-South axis trading.

The 17.000 inhabitants of 2004 should be joined by 3 or 4.000 others before 2010. A stage symbolic system will be crossed with the rehabilitation in residences of standing of immense the Grand seminar builds in 1932.

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