Haute-Goulaine

Haute-Goulaine Hautt-Góleinn (Gallo) Gorre-Goulen (Breton)
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Haute-Goulaine
Haute-Goulaine Haute-Goulaine
Coordinates: 47°11′59″N 1°25′39″W
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement	Nantes
Canton	Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire
Intercommunality	CA Clisson Sèvre et Maine Agglo
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Fabrice Cuchot
Area 1	20.59 km2 (7.95 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	5,958
• Density	290/km2 (750/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44071 /44115
Elevation	0–56 m (0–184 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Haute-Goulaine (French pronunciation: [ot ɡulɛn] ^ⓘ; Gallo: Hautt-Góleinn, Breton: Gorre-Goulen) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. The commune is located near Nantes. Historically, the commune was part of Brittany.

The chateau de Goulaine is one of the tourist sites that can be visited in the commune. Henri IV of France (king from 1589 to 1610) made the seigneury of Goulaine a marquisate in favour of Gabriel de Goulaine, husband of Marguerite de Bretagne.

On 22 October 1941, six of the 16 hostages shot in Nantes following the attack on Karl Hotz were buried in the Haute-Goulaine cemetery.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,470 —     1800 855 −7.45% 1806 1,481 +9.59% 1821 1,548 +0.30% 1831 1,489 −0.39% 1841 1,614 +0.81% 1846 1,624 +0.12% 1851 1,676 +0.63% 1856 1,666 −0.12% 1861 1,753 +1.02% 1866 1,801 +0.54% 1872 1,762 −0.36% 1876 1,841 +1.10% 1881 1,831 −0.11% 1886 1,807 −0.26% 1891 1,656 −1.73% 1896 1,603 −0.65% 1901 1,561 −0.53%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 1,616 +0.69% 1911 1,579 −0.46% 1921 1,341 −1.62% 1926 1,296 −0.68% 1931 1,281 −0.23% 1936 1,301 +0.31% 1946 1,354 +0.40% 1954 1,607 +2.16% 1962 1,815 +1.53% 1968 1,981 +1.47% 1975 2,582 +3.86% 1982 3,225 +3.23% 1990 3,823 +2.15% 1999 4,925 +2.85% 2007 5,470 +1.32% 2012 5,539 +0.25% 2017 5,764 +0.80%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

See also

• Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department