Plogoff

Plogoff is a common department of the Finistere, at the end of the Cape Sizun (Canton of Bridge-Cross) in the area Brittany, in France. Plogoff is bordering on Primelin and Cléden-Cape-Sizun.

The derived adjective is plogoffite .

Etymology

Plogoff (Plougoñ in Breton modern, the - FF being old a Digraph noting the nasalisation of the preceding vowel replaced by ñ ) is a éponyme (compound of Breton the plou (“parish”) and of a name of saint).

Geography

the Pointe of the Strong current (national site) is at the western end of the commune and is prolonged by the Raz of Center, in the medium of which the Phare of the Old woman is built.
a semaphore is on the point.
the commune has three small ports only accessible to the small even very small units: Pors-Loubous, Feunten-Aod, Bestrée.

History

See also: Business of Plogoff

At the end of the years 1970, the French State wanted to establish a Nuclear plant on the territory of the commune. The project was rejected massively by the plogoffists and other antinuclear partisans from all Brittany even of whole France. The conflict, often violent, lasted several weeks. Opposition to the construction, indexed under the term " events of Plogoff" , is the first major demonstration against the French nuclear policy.

This gained antinuclear combat of brave fight by the opponents with the project of power station was at the origin of several books, two films ( Plogoff, of the stones against rifles - the business Plogoff ), many press articles and tens of posters.

On the headland of the point of the Strong current a shopping mall built in the years 1970 was called into question and destroys because it denatured the site. N the other hand a new space of reception was created in withdrawal and its management entrusted at a mixed trade-union. It seems more in connection with the aspirations of development of this inheritance and makes it possible to better accommodate the visitors. The financial resources generated by the paying parking lot of this site relieve without question local finances.

Policy

Jean-Marie Kerloch: mayor during the Business of Plogoff

Economy

inshore fishing (confidential)
agriculture (in regression)
traditional cookie factory
tourism: hotels, restaurants, lodgings, private camp-site, riding school.

Legends

A legend claims that it is in the Baie of the Departeds (Cape Sizun) (bae year Anaon) that Gradlon released his/her daughter, that it related to the neck of its horse. Enchanted by the devil, the princess had subtilized the key of the doors of the town of Ys to the neck of her father. This devil disguised as a beautiful prince tapped this key to him and opened the doors of the city by one night of storm. Alarm was sounded in the city and Gradlon managed to escape saving his/her daughter behind him on her mounting. The bishop of Quimper ran in front of this theater, saw the devil flying away and included/understood the made fault. Gradlon learning the breach from his/her daughter gave up the young woman with the floods in fury, while behind him, Ys disappeared in the unchained ocean. It is said that since the princess her sadness in the strong current of center cries, enchanting the sailors to bay of the Departeds, this sand beach beaten by the swell which opens vis-a-vis the Atlantic between the point of the Strong current and the point of Van. It is claimed that the bell of Ys still gets along the evenings of storm at the bottom of the secret pond which was formed behind the dunes of bay.

Places and monuments

parochial Church Saint-Collodan , with the Borough, dating from the 16th century but restored and modified at the three centuries following.

Vault Holy Andre , in Landrer, known as into Breton " Sant Andro ". Rectangular building of plan with small pinnacle deadened in dome like that of the Saint-Yves vault. Like the latter, it was transferred, being formerly in Loc' H, " Rear Porz Zent".

vault Saint Michel in Lescoff, in the past dedicated to Holy Cléden then with Holy Collodan )

vault Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage ( and of Good port ). In the shape of Latin cross with bedside with side crossed as well as the wings. Founded in 1698 following a wish made by Jean-Baptiste de Tréanna, Sr of Kerazan in Cléden, the current building was built in 1702-1703 in the fields of the master mason François Favennec, of Pleyben. The bell-tower was restored in 1852 by Clet Marzin, master mason in Landrer.

vault Saint-Yves . It was formerly in the bottom of the commune, close to Loc' H in Cougon-Sant-Youenn. It was transported in 1817 in Kerguidy.

destroyed vaults :

vault Saint-Guénolé , in Laoual. Existing fountain.
vault Saint-Michel , not far from Lescoff, destroyed about 1812; forgiveness is transferred then in the vault close to Saint-Cléden and the term was substituted for that of Cléden saint in Lescoff.
vault Saint-Maudez , mentioned in the role of the Ten-per-cent tax S in 1774 and 1787. Is this the vault Saint-Voulien (Moëllien) destroyed in 1852 in Pennéac' H? The stones of this one were used to increase the vault Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage .

Statue out of marble of Carrara marble of Our-Lady-of-Shipwrecked men to the Point of the Strong current, work of the sculptor Cyprian Godebski in remembering his/her son died in the Tonkin. On the pedestal, goes back to 1904 and Bas-relief representing the appearance of the Virgin Mary to a sailor shipwrecked man.

Characters related to the commune

Honore d' Estienne d' Orves, French naval officer, resistant. After having rejoined London in September 1940 it is led in France to its request on the fishing vessel of Jean-François Fallie, the Marie-Louise. It unloads in Pors Loubous on the southern part of Plogoff on December 21st, 1940 (commemorative plaque). The 24 of the same month it is in Nantes and the 31 in Paris. January 22nd, 1941, after significant results (radio connections with London, many contacts in France…) of Estienne-d' Orves is stopped in Nantes. He was shot by the Germans with the Valérien Mount on August 29th, 1941.

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