Turballe

Turballe is a common French located in the department of the Loire-Atlantique and the area Pays of the Loire.

Its name in Breton is An Turball .
Its name in Gallo is Troball .

The inhabitants of the commune are called the Turballais (be) .

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Geography

The commune of Turballe is on the peninsula of Guérande, in the west of the salt-water marshes. It is surrounded by the communes of Guérande in the east, Piriac-sur-Mer in north and Croisic, in the south, which faces the peninsula of PEN-Bron .

A long sand beach, called the Large cliff in reference to its large dune, connects PEN-Bron to the port. The wood of PEN-Bron separates this beach from the salt-water marshes of the small Traict . At the end of PEN-Bron was founded at the end of the XIXe century a center photogravure-sailor always in activity. The seaside of the north of the commune is much rock.

The church of Trescalan , to the top of the highest hill of the commune, offers a remarkable panorama on the marshes. Moreover, of many hamlets divide the territory of the commune, such Coispéan , Méliniac , Fourbihan , Lauvergnac , Trévaly etc Some mills and manors are also to see.

History

One finds mention of Turballe for the first time in writings going up with 1452. At that time, it was not yet of a borough, but about a group of some houses at the top of the dune.

The hamlet developed within the Frairie of Trescalan which gathered part of the villages of the parish of Guérande. In 1698 a vault was set up with Trescalan . (The current church goes back to 1847).

In 1836, Turballe counted 219 inhabitants including 30 fishermen.

In 1847, the fraire of Trescalan - as that of Coispéan - became a parish with whole share. There were then already more inhabitants with Turballe than with Trescalan .

The activities of fishing not ceasing growing, Turballe was high with the row of commune the May 17th 1865. Two months later, its first mayor, Alfred Pellier, was élu.

During the Second world war, many blockhäuser was built, in particular on the seaside in reinforcement of the Atlantic Wall. Two other lines of defense were spread out over the commune.

A bomb was released on the city in 1942. It is thought however that it acted in fact of an error on behalf of the English. By chance, no victim was to regret.

Of March 1944 to the Release, the May 11th 1945 three days after the end of the war, Turballe belonged to the Poche of Saint-Nazaire.

Blasonnement

the currency of the east city: " Always more avant" .

Culture

Turballe accommodated in June 2006 the Festival Anne of Brittany.

The Anne duchess offered in 1505 three crowns: one out of gold with the parish of Guérande, one out of money with the parish of Saillé, one bronzes some (actually out of copper) with the parish of Trescalan .

Of these three crowns only that out of copper always exists. It is the property of the commune of Turballe.

The habit, always in practice, wants that the crown is deposited on the head of married at the time of the ceremony to the church.

Economic activities

The port of Turballe is the first fishing port of the Pays of the Loire with eighty a trawlers. It is also the first port of the Atlantic facade for the Anchois and the Sardine.

In 2000, 15.000 tons were fished for a value of 180 frank million . The port produces moreover 7000 tons of anchovy each year. The activity mobilizes three hundred active professionals. The trawling is practiced all the year, the sardine and the anchovy being collected spring with the autumn. Apart from these periods they are the bar, the Merlu, the merluchon, the Dorade, the Seiche and sometimes the Thon which are collected.

The Marina has three hundred forty-five places including thirty for the visitors.

Shouted each day organizes, in the center tide, a Auction, Monday to Friday from 6 heures.

The commune obtained a artisanal zone which gathers forty-two undertaken on a surface of eight hectares, counting mainly establishments related on the maritime world and the craft industry.

It should be noted that the first employer of the Communauté of agglomeration Cape Atlantique, which employs three hundred and thirty worker, is the center of PEN-Bron . A hundred and sixty other companies domiciled with Turballe share various branches of industry like the Commerce, the restoration, the services.

Turballe is also a seaside resort important.

Personalities related to the commune

Gaston Balbi (1766 -?), courtier at the court of the king Louis XVI celebrates, would be in the beginning the many bastard ones in high the Noblesse of the time. (One would lend approximately a hundred to him the bastard ones in seven years of night orgies). He flees loosely the palate of Versailles following the night of the August 4th 1789 and took refuge with Trescalan . Among his Breton descendants, one can in particular quote Yves Legeoc (1831 - 1870) which illustrated at the time of a battle of the Napoleonean war of 1870 by lowering its pants and showing its rear-axle unit with the invader; like Pierre Judtric (1873 - 1935) celebrates for many misdeeds on the commune of Férel (Morbihan). We lose any trace of life of Gaston Balbi as from his voyage towards the Nouveau World.

Administration

Demography

Others

According to the cutting of the Brittany makes by Erwan Valerie, Turballe belongs to the traditional country of the Brière and the historical country of the Nantes Pays.

The city of Turballe is twinned with:

Bussang, the Vosges.

External bonds

Of the photographs of Turballe
Official site of the town hall
Site of the Tourist office of Turballe
Turballe on the site of INSEE

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