Thanks to the many shops, businesses and associations, it is a town that wants to be dynamic. It benefits from the attractiveness of the Achards industrial area. The town probably takes its name from the mound butte that Acardus de Mota, first lord of the place, built in the eleventh century at the confluence of Auzaire and Auzance. Tools of polished stone, bronze, pottery, a furnace ore discovered east of the town attest a human activity in the Gallic era and even before.
From the eleventh century, the town had two churches: St Jacques, the chapel of the castle and St. They were burned by the Protestants in At that time there was a leprosy hospital for lepers royal foundation.
In the nineteenth century, La Mothe-Achard experienced a real commercial boom after the completion of the Saumur-Les Sables road in , after the Nantes-Les Sables road in , the construction of the station and the arrival of the train in At the same time, there was a large livestock market on the current Place de l'Hotel de Ville. Other areas were reserved for pigs and poultry. The monthly fairs, the first Thursday of the month, were well beyond the limits of the township and continue to this day.
The halls and many shops, hotels whose "Lion d'Or", not to mention many cafes, were the reflection of a major commercial activity. The craft industry was varied and flourishing: blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, dyers, milliners The name of the Chapel-Achard probably comes from a member of the family of Lord Achard de la Mota who set up a religious center under the name of Capella Achardi and had a chapel built on the site of the current church, in the vicinity from Populated since the Neolithic, the town retains several traces of a rich past.
The church is one of the oldest in the region, although it has not been spared the vicissitudes of the wars of religion and revolution. Common very important for centuries, it was cut in two in the nineteenth century with the creation of Saint-Mathurin. Add to favourites Remove from favourites. Add to itinerary Remove from itinerary.
