Vendel, Ille-et-Vilaine

Vendel Gwennel
Part of Rives-du-Couesnon
The church in Vendel
Coat of arms
Location of Vendel
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Coordinates: 48°18′00″N 1°18′37″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement	Fougères-Vitré
Canton	Fougères-1
Commune	Rives-du-Couesnon
Area ^1	6.37 km^2 (2.46 sq mi)
Population  (2019)[1]	398
• Density	62/km^2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	35140
Elevation	50–105 m (164–344 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vendel (French pronunciation: [vɑ̃dɛl]; Breton: Gwennel; Gallo: Vandèu) is a former commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Rives-du-Couesnon.[2]

Geography

Vendel is located 38 km (24 mi) northeast of Rennes and 45 km (28 mi) south of Mont Saint-Michel.

The adjacent communes are La Chapelle-Saint-Aubert, Billé, Saint-Georges-de-Chesné, and Saint-Jean-sur-Couesnon.

Population

Inhabitants of Vendel are called Vendelais in French.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	334	—
1968	344	+3.0%
1975	325	−5.5%
1982	300	−7.7%
1990	311	+3.7%
1999	339	+9.0%
2009	436	+28.6%

See also

• Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
2. Arrêté préfectoral 17 October 2018 (in French)

External links

• Geography of Brittany
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)