Rezé
Rezae (Gallo)
Reudied (Breton)
Commune
City center
City center
Flag of Rezé
Flag
Coat of arms of Rezé
Coat of arms
Location of Rezé
Rezé is located in France
Rezé
Rezé
Rezé is located in Pays de la Loire
Rezé
Rezé
Coordinates: 47°11′30″N 1°34′10″W / 47.19167°N 1.56944°W / 47.19167; -1.56944
CountryFrance
RegionPays de la Loire
DepartmentLoire-Atlantique
ArrondissementNantes
CantonRezé-1 and 2
IntercommunalityNantes Métropole
Government
 • Mayor (2022–2026) Agnès Bourgeais[1]
Area
1
13.78 km2 (5.32 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2021)[2]
42,998
 • Density3,100/km2 (8,100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
44143 /44400
Elevation1–42 m (3.3–137.8 ft)
(avg. 8 m or 26 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Rezé (French: [ʁəze] ⓘ; Breton: Reudied, Gallo: Rezae) is a commune (municipality) and former bishopric in the Loire-Atlantique department in the Pays de la Loire region of western France. It is a southern suburb of Nantes.

It was also called Ratiate in the Middle Ages and Rezay in the High Middle Ages.

View of Rezé from the Maison Radieuse of Corbusier

History

Rezé dates back to the Roman era, when it was known as Portus Ratiatus (port of Rezé) and Ratiatum Pictonum Portus (picton port of Rezé). Being populated by the Ambilatres tribe - Armorican Gauls - Rezé was an important port on the south shore of the Loire and a place for meetings and trade between the various Celtic tribes of the region (Veneti, Namnetes, Ambilatres, Andecavis and Pictones).

In 510 a Latin Catholic Diocese of Rezé was established on territory split off from the Diocese of Poitiers. It was suppressed 851, its territory being reassigned to the nearby then Diocese of Nantes. No incumbents or other details available.

It has ruins of Gallo-Roman settlement and a priory of Saint Lucien.

In the feudal age, it was the capital of the Pays de Retz within the Duchy of Brittany.

Geography

Location of the Rezé commune in the department of Loire-Atlantique

The commune is surrounded by the communes of Nantes, Vertou, Les Sorinières, Pont-Saint-Martin and Bouguenais. It is limited north by the Loire, east by the Sèvre Nantaise and the Ilette, west by the Jaguère and south by the boulevard périphérique of Nantes. Rezé-Pont-Rousseau station has rail connections to Pornic, Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and Nantes.

Monuments

Municipal administration

Since the municipal elections of 1977, the communal council has always been filled in the first round of voting.

List of mayors after 1944
TermNamePolitical PartyPosition
September 1944-May 1945Jean Vignais (1878–1954)Radical Socialist
May 1945-March 1949Arthur Boutin (1903–1980)SFIOGeneral Council
March 1949-March 1959Georges Albert Bénezet (1892–1970)RPF
March 1959-February 1978Alexandre Plancher (1909–1978)SFIOGeneral Council
April 1978-February 1999Jacques Floch (1938- )PSDeputy
1999–2014Gilles RetièrePS
2014–2020Gérard AllardPS
2020–2022Hervé NeauDVG
2022–incumbentAgnès Bourgeais[1]

Sources: Yann Vince, "Rezé, histoire municipale" éditions Hérault, 1997 and Annuaire-Mairie[3]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 4,466—    
1800 3,519−3.35%
1806 4,989+5.99%
1821 4,756−0.32%
1831 4,968+0.44%
1841 5,277+0.61%
1846 6,203+3.29%
1851 6,644+1.38%
1856 7,054+1.20%
1861 7,209+0.44%
1866 7,423+0.59%
1872 6,946−1.10%
1876 6,849−0.35%
1881 7,377+1.50%
1886 7,418+0.11%
1891 7,431+0.04%
1896 7,803+0.98%
1901 8,751+2.32%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1906 8,919+0.38%
1911 9,424+1.11%
1921 10,368+0.96%
1926 11,050+1.28%
1931 12,325+2.21%
1936 13,499+1.84%
1946 16,395+1.96%
1954 19,000+1.86%
1962 28,276+5.10%
1968 33,509+2.87%
1975 35,730+0.92%
1982 33,562−0.89%
1990 33,262−0.11%
1999 35,478+0.72%
2007 37,846+0.81%
2012 39,377+0.80%
2017 41,411+1.01%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE[5]

International relations

Rezé is twinned with:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
  2. ↑ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ↑ Ville de Rezé, annuaire-mairie.fr, accessed 17 May 2021
  4. ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Rezé, EHESS (in French).
  5. ↑ INSEE: Population en historique depuis 1968
  6. ↑ Reze Website .
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