Allouagne
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Pas-de-Calais | |
| Arrondissement | Bethune | |
| Canton | Lillers | |
| Community association | Béthune-Bruay, Artois-Lys novels | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 32 ' N , 2 ° 30' E | |
| height | 20-100 m | |
| surface | 7.81 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,925 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 375 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 62157 | |
| INSEE code | 62023 | |
| Website | www.ville-allouagne.fr | |
 Mairie Allouagne |
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Allouagne is a French town with 2,925 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Pas-de-Calais in the region of Hauts-de-France .
geography
Allouagne is located at an average altitude of 32 meters above sea level 40 kilometers southwest of Lille , the capital of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, and 3 kilometers northeast of Auchel not far from the A26 autoroute . The municipality has an area of 7.81 square kilometers.
history
Allouagne Silva Aslonias is mentioned in a document from the year 1000 . Silva is the Latin word for "forest". It is assumed that the word Aslonia originated from the Germanic Ask , then the meaning would be "ash forest".
politics
Allouagne is part of the community association Communauté de communes Artois Lys . Since 1974 there has been a town partnership with the German town of Schwerte and the Ergste district, which was incorporated in 1975 .
economy
The Tipret brewery and malt house has existed since the 17th century. It was sold in 1850 and called the Brasserie des Houillères . In 1900 the brewery building was enlarged and the brewery modernized. In 1912 one of the region's first cooling systems was installed, including a filter and filling system . The beer had previously been fermented in wooden barrels.
In 1927 the brewery was sold to Duquesnes and Vandermersch, who had new production halls built in 1929. In 1927 the brewery produced 25,000 hectoliters of top-fermented beer. In 1946 80,000 hectoliters of bottom-fermented beer were produced. In the 1970s the brewery was closed and used as a warehouse.
Today, the main industries in Allouagne are farming , vegetable growing and breeding of domestic cattle .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b La ville d'Allouagne. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved September 14, 2011 (French).
- ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie Generale de la France 2 volumes Etymologie de 35,000 Noms de Lieux . tape 2 . Librairie Droz, Geneva 1996, ISBN 2-600-00133-6 , pp. 879 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Université chartraine du temps libre: Les noms de lieux en Eure-et-Loir (microtoponymy) . Canton de Bonneval. tape 7 . Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir, 1993, p. 47 (French).
- ↑ entry no. 62023 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ Vie économique on ville-allouagne.fr (French) Retrieved March 16, 2015.