Andenne

Andenne
	Andenne
	Andenne
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Namur
District :	Namur
Coordinates :	50 ° 29 ′ N , 5 ° 6 ′ E Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ N , 5 ° 6 ′ E
Area :	86.17 km²
Residents:	27,391 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density:	318 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	5300
Prefix:	085
Mayor:	Claude Eerdekens ( LDM )
; Local government address :	Hôtel de Ville ; Place des Tilleuls, 1 ; 5300 Andenne
Website:	www.andenne.be

Andenne is a city in the province of Namur in the Walloon part of Belgium . It lies on the Meuse between Namur in the west and Liège in the east.

Andenne station is frequented by around 130 trains every day. There are connections to Lille (via Namur and Charleroi ), Brussels (via Namur) and Liers (via Liège ).

The city of Andenne consists of the ten districts Andenne , Bonneville , Coutisse , Landenne , Maizeret , Namêche , Sclayn , Seilles , Thon and Vezin .

history

At Samson in the district of Thon (about 7 km west of the district Andenne) there was a late Roman fortification. To the east of this, a burial field from the late 4th to mid 6th century was uncovered. Numerous graves contained weapons. The place Andenne developed around the abbey founded by Begga , daughter of Pippin the Elder in 690/691.

During the First World War , Andenne was the scene of a mass execution of Belgian residents by the German military in August 1914. Together with the neighboring town of Seilles , the number of victims here was 262.

The Maas Bridge Sclayn was the first prestressed concrete bridge in Belgium and had the first prestressed continuous beam . The central central belt asteroid (2788) Andenne is named after the city.

politics

Municipal council

The Andenne Municipal Council ( Conseil Communal ) has 27 members, from which the Collège is formed with the Mayor and six aldermen ( Echevins ).

Town twinning

Andenne has a partnership with three cities : 1956 with Chauny in Picardy (France), 1990 with Bergheim in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) and 2005 with Mottafollone in Calabria (Italy). Andenne has been connected to Bergheim and Chauny through the “ABC International” group since 1975. B. Organized a citizens' meeting for the Andenne Carnival, the Chauny Spring Festival and the Bergheim Carnival and organized a school exchange. A sequel with tradition is the ABC sports festival, which takes place annually in one of the three partner cities.

Attractions

The collegiate church of St. Begga was built from 1764 to 1778 according to plans by the architect Laurent-Benoît Dewez . The building material came from the demolition of seven churches that were demolished in the course of the 18th century due to disrepair.
The city's ceramic museum exhibits ceramic works from the Gallo-Roman period to the present day.
The Scladina grotto in the Sclayn district.

photos

Andenne Town Hall
Andenne, Collegiate Church of St. Begga
Namêche, Notre-Dame Church

Vezin, water tower

sons and daughters of the town

Christian Kellens (1925–2019), Belgian jazz musician
Fats Sadi (1927–2009), Belgian jazz musician, singer and composer
Edouard Aidans (1930–2018), comic book artist and author

Web links

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

Wikisource: Andes in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Official website of the city of Andenne (French or English)

Individual evidence

^ Horst Wolfgang Böhme: Gallic hill settlements and Germanic mercenaries in the 4th / 5th. Century. In: Heiko Steuer , Volker Bierbrauer (Ed.): Hill settlements between antiquity and the Middle Ages from the Ardennes to the Adriatic. With the assistance of Michael Hoeper. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020235-9 , ( Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde supplementary volumes 58).
^ John N. Horne, Alan Kramer: German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial. Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-300-10791-9 , pp. 30 ff.
^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 15, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1981 EL. Discovered 1981 Mar. 1 by H. Debehogne and G. DeSanctis at La Silla. "

[1] Horst Wolfgang Böhme: Gallic hill settlements and Germanic mercenaries in the 4th / 5th. Century. In: Heiko Steuer , Volker Bierbrauer (Ed.): Hill settlements between antiquity and the Middle Ages from the Ardennes to the Adriatic. With the assistance of Michael Hoeper. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020235-9 , ( Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde supplementary volumes 58).

[2] John N. Horne, Alan Kramer: German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial. Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-300-10791-9 , pp. 30 ff.

[3] Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 15, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1981 EL. Discovered 1981 Mar. 1 by H. Debehogne and G. DeSanctis at La Silla. "