Bouvines

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Bouvines
Bouvines Coat of Arms
Bouvines (France)
Bouvines
region Hauts-de-France
Department North
Arrondissement Lille
Canton Templeuve
Community association Métropole Européenne de Lille
Coordinates 50 ° 35 '  N , 3 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '  N , 3 ° 11'  E
height 25-49 m
surface 2.71 km 2
Residents 775 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 286 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 59830
INSEE code 59106
Website http://www.bouvines.fr/

Church Saint-Pierre

Bouvines ( Dutch : Bovingen ) is a French municipality with 775 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France . The place is known as the site of the Battle of Bouvines in 1214.

geography

Bouvines is located in the center of the four neighboring towns of Sainghin-en-Mélantois in the northwest, Gruson in the northeast, Cysoing in the southeast and Péronne-en-Mélantois in the southwest. The river Marque borders the municipality to the west, where the settlement area borders directly on that of Sainghin-en-Mélantois.

history

The place was already settled at the time of the Merovingians , as evidenced by the remains of a cemetery. The place Bovingole is mentioned for the first time in 899 in a document of Charles the Bald ; a map of the county of Flanders (to which Bouvines belonged for a long time) attests to the village in 1002 as Villa Bovinas .

In 1214, the battle of Bouvines took place in the immediate north of the village , in which Philip II , the French king, fought Emperor Otto IV and his English- Guelph army. The event was one of the greatest knight battles of the European Middle Ages and the outcome had a decisive impact in England , France and the Holy Roman Empire .

Bouvines was also later involved in armed conflicts, among other things, it was captured in the Eighty Years' War in 1578 by the Dutch commander Gilles de Berlaymont . During the First Coalition War , the bridge over the Marque was an important position in the run-up to the Allied deployment at the Battle of Tourcoing .

The mayor Félix Dehau was the youngest mayor of France in 1872 and left office in 1934 as doyen of the mayors of France. During his 62-year term in office, the decision to rebuild the Saint-Pierre church was made ; he also founded what is now the oldest agricultural school in France in Lille . After his death, his children set up a Dominican monastery in Dehau's house .

Attractions

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Bouvines

The local attractions include the Dominican monastery, the church with windows designed by Emmanuel Champigneulle and an obelisk in memory of the Battle of Bouvines.

  • obelisk

  • War memorial

  • Saint-Léonard chapel

  • Dominican monastery

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 594-596.

Web links

Commons : Bouvines  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969