Bruille-Saint-Amand
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | North | |
| Arrondissement | Valenciennes | |
| Canton | Saint-Amand-les-Eaux | |
| Community association | Porte du Hainaut | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 28 ′ N , 3 ° 30 ′ E | |
| height | 16-38 m | |
| surface | 7.88 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,671 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 212 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 59199 | |
| INSEE code | 59114 | |
| Website | http://www.bruillesaintamand.fr/ | |
 Town hall (Mairie) of Bruille-Saint-Amand |
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Bruille-Saint-Amand (also: Bruille-Lez-Saint-Amand ) is a French municipality with 1671 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the region of Hauts-de-France in the department of Nord . Administratively, the municipality is assigned to the arrondissement of Valenciennes and is part of the canton of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (until 2015: canton of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux-Rive droite ). The inhabitants are called Bruillois .
geography
Bruille-Saint-Amand is located in French Flanders near the Belgian border and on the canalized Scheldt , which forms the northeastern municipal boundary, twelve kilometers north-northwest of Valenciennes .
Bruille-Saint-Amand is part of the Scarpe-Schelde Regional Nature Park (French: Parc naturel régional Scarpe-Escaut ) and is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Flines-lès-Mortagne in the north, Hergnies in the east and northeast, Odomez and Escautpont in the southeast, and Raismes to the south, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux to the south-west, Nivelle and Château-l'Abbaye to the west and north-west.
Population development
| year | 1936 | 1946 | 1954 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
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| Residents | 1,519 | 1,254 | 1,390 | 1,403 | 1,442 | 1,381 | 1,391 | 1,473 | 1,470 | 1,458 | 1,650 |
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Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Bruille-Saint-Amand
- Notre-Dame Church in Notre-Dame-du-Bois
- Saint-Maurice church in Bruille
- Notre-Dame chapel in Malaise, monument historique since 1988
- British military cemetery
- Ruins of the Tour du Moulin
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , p. 1434.
