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Flag of Plancoët - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 7 January 2023
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The municipality of Plancoët (3,057 inhabitants in 2021; 1,149 ha; municipal website) is located 25 km south-west of Saint-Malo.
Plancoët is named for the Breton words plane coat, meaning "a flat wood". The village was indeed established in a clearing of the forest and subsequently detached from the primitive parish of Pluduno.
Plancoët was first mentioned, as Plancoit, in a charter signed in 1179
by Geoffroy de Dinan. Plancoët was on the frontline of the war that opposed the Duke of Brittany to the Count of Penthièvre in the 11th-14th centuries. Most of the houses of the village were burned down in 1252. The castle and its fortifications, originally built in the 11th century by the lords of Dinan, were suppressed in 1389 by the Duke of Brittany.
The domain of Plancoët was acquired in 1782 by the uncle of the
diplomat and writer François-René de Châteaubriand (1768-1848), who spent his early youth in the house of his grandmother, located in the village.
Plancoët experienced a limited industrial development (tanneries and a
distillery) in the 19th century, boosted by the port on river
Arguenon, initiated in 1828 and completed in 1840. The inauguration of
the railway in 1879 caused the decline of the port.
The only mineral natural water in Brittany is produced by the Plancoët source. Gushing forth in the Nazareth borough, the source was officially registered in 1928 by the Ministry of Health upon request of Dr. Chambrin, Mayor of Plancoët. The water, originally sold locally as "Nazareth table water", was commercialized on a larger scale from 1962 onwards (website).
Ivan Sache, 7 June 2014
The flag of Plancoët is white with the current logo, based on the coat of arms, and adopted in 2015: photo (2023), photo (2020), photo (2020).
The coat of arms is blazoned Argent a saltire sable
cantonned with four roses gules.
Olivier Touzeau, 7 January 2023
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Former flags of Plancoët - left, banner of arms, before 2009; right logo flag, between 2009 and 2015
Images respectively by Ivan Sache, 7 June 2014 and Olivier Touzeau, 7 January 2023
The flag of Plancoët (photo) was white with a black saltire cantonned by four red roses. The flag is a banner of the municipal arms, "Argent a saltire sable cantonned with four roses gules".
Ivan Sache, 7 June 2014
In 2009, the commune has replaced the
banner of arms by a white flag with its logo, in use until 2015: photo (2011), photo (2013)
This logo had been chosen to "match the image of the
town: fresh and dynamic. The drops that compose it symbolize nature,
water and movement" [source: municipal website]
Olivier Touzeau, 7 January 2023
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Flag of Plancoët - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 7 January 2023
In Plancoët, a flag for the german twinned city of Kreuzau is often
seen together with the municipal flag.
The twinning comittee in Plancoët has a flag with the colours of
Germany and France and both coats of arms with the words "Jumelage/Partnerschaft" (twinning): photo (2018).
Olivier Touzeau, 7 January 2023