Château-l'Abbaye

Château-l'Abbaye
region	Hauts-de-France
Department	North
Arrondissement	Valenciennes
Canton	Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
Community association	Porte du Hainaut
Coordinates	50 ° 29 ′ N , 3 ° 29 ′ E Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ N , 3 ° 29 ′ E
height	13-28 m
surface	4.41 km 2
Residents	874 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	198 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	59230
INSEE code	59144
	; Town hall (Mairie) of Château-l'Abbaye

Château-l'Abbaye is a French municipality with 874 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 Castellabiens .

geography

Château-l'Abbaye is located in French Flanders near the Belgian border and on the canalized rivers Scheldt and Scarpe , 14 km north-northwest of Valenciennes .

Château-l'Abbaye belongs to 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 and east, Bruille-Saint-Amand in the south-east and Nivelle in the south , Thun-Saint-Amand in the west and Mortagne-du-Nord in the north-west.

year	1936	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Residents	546	510	609	593	610	630	590	714	759	840	878
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Saint-Nicaise church

Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 1434-1435.

Commons : Château-l'Abbaye - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Monuments historiques (objects) in Château-l'Abbaye in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture