Antoing

Antoing is a municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut in Wallonia on the border with France.

geography

The municipality is located on the Scheldt , about eight kilometers southeast of Tournai and on the Lille - Liège railway line .

Places in and around Antoing

It includes the towns of Antoing (I.), Fontenoy (II.), Maubray (III.), Péronnes-les-Antoing (IV.), Bruyelle (V.) and Calonne (VI.).

The neighboring localities are

During the Austrian War of Succession , Fontenoy was the scene of the Battle of Fontenoy on May 11, 1745.

The castle of Antoing, which has belonged to the Princes of Ligne since the middle of the 17th century , was first mentioned in the 12th century, but was largely expanded between the 13th and 15th centuries. It was given its current neo-Gothic appearance in the 19th century by the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc .
The town hall was built in 1565 as a cloth hall.

Antoing maintains partnership relationships with the municipality of Zell (Mosel) in Rhineland-Palatinate .

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