Berné

Berné

Berne
Berné Berne
Commune
	The parish church in Berné
	Location of Berné
	Berné Berné
	Coordinates: 47°59′44″N 3°23′28″W / 47.9956°N 3.3911°W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Arrondissement	Pontivy
Canton	Gourin
Intercommunality	Roi Morvan Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	David Guilloux
Area 1	34.77 km2 (13.42 sq mi)
Population (2021)	1,562
• Density	45/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	56014 /56240
Elevation	36–166 m (118–545 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Berné (French pronunciation: [bɛʁne]; Berne in Breton) is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in northwestern France.

Population

Inhabitants of Berné are called Bernéens.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	1,751	—
1800	1,764	+0.11%
1806	1,773	+0.08%
1821	2,022	+0.88%
1831	2,668	+2.81%
1836	2,210	−3.70%
1841	1,876	−3.22%
1846	1,959	+0.87%
1851	1,941	−0.18%
1856	1,711	−2.49%
1861	1,766	+0.63%
1866	1,863	+1.08%
1872	1,777	−0.78%
1876	1,912	+1.85%
1881	1,984	+0.74%
1886	1,886	−1.01%
1891	1,904	+0.19%
1896	1,953	+0.51%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	1,930	−0.24%
1906	1,953	+0.24%
1911	2,030	+0.78%
1921	1,993	−0.18%
1926	1,989	−0.04%
1931	1,918	−0.72%
1936	1,897	−0.22%
1946	1,968	+0.37%
1954	1,804	−1.08%
1962	1,685	−0.85%
1968	1,592	−0.94%
1975	1,508	−0.77%
1982	1,425	−0.81%
1990	1,350	−0.67%
1999	1,316	−0.28%
2009	1,501	+1.32%
2014	1,510	+0.12%
2020	1,545	+0.38%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2020)^[4]

Geography

Berné is located in the western part of Morbihan, 28 km (17 mi) north of Lorient, 32 km (20 mi) west of Pontivy and 40 km (25 mi) northwest of Vannes. The commune is wooded and hilly. The forest of Pontcallec cover a large part of the commune's area. The river Scorff forms the commune's eastern and southern borders.

Map

Topographic map

History

Second world war

Seventeen french resistance fighters were shot dead by the german soldiers in the Landordu wood. Some victims were buried alive. Their bodies were exhumed on July 6, 1944.