Denain

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Denain
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Denain (France)
Denain
region Hauts-de-France
Department North
Arrondissement Valenciennes
Canton Denain (chef-lieu)
Community association Porte du Hainaut
Coordinates 50 ° 20 ′  N , 3 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′  N , 3 ° 24 ′  E
height 62-131 m
surface 11.52 km 2
Residents 19,825 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 1,721 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 59220
INSEE code 59172
Website http://www.ville-denain.fr/

town hall

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Denain ( Dutch Dening ) is a commune with 19,825 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France . It is the capital of the canton of Denain in the arrondissement of Valenciennes .

Geography and traffic

The city is located near the Belgian border, ten kilometers southwest of Valenciennes . In Denain the Selle flows into the Scheldt . The Escaut , as the Scheldt is called in France, forms an important waterway between France, Belgium and the Netherlands and is canalised in Denain, as elsewhere, over long stretches . Renaturation projects are currently on the political agenda. Denain can be reached via the A2 autoroute . The A2 is a section of the E19 European route that runs from Amsterdam to Paris .

Denain belongs to the agglomeration of Valenciennes and is served by the tram system of this district city with five stops. The French state railways SNCF connect Denain with the two railway lines Lourches –Valenciennes and Denain – Saint-Amand-les-Eaux .

history

In 764 Count Adalbert von Ostervant and his wife Regina founded the Benedictine monastery of Denain.

In the 12th century Hugo II of Ostervant (French Hugues d'Ostrevant ) was the second son of Anselm II of Ostervant. The title Hugo von Valenciennes, which he probably carried in the role of the heir's son, has also survived. After an inheritance in the county of Hainaut , in which his nephew Gottfried ( Godefroid ) von Ostrevant and his half-brother Balduin IV ( Baudouin IV de Hainaut ) were involved, Hugo II had to take the name "Hugo von Denain" to make the title his actual fiefdom . Hugo had two sons: Jean I, died 1202, buried in the church l'Église des Dames Chanoinesses by Denain and Étienne I.

In Denain, the French defeated the Netherlands, allied with Habsburg Austria , in the Battle of Denain on July 24, 1712 during the War of the Spanish Succession . The war-weary Dutch, once under Spanish rule themselves , then left the scramble for the orphaned Spanish crown.

Toponyms

Dononium , Denonium , Denainum , Domniacum , Dyniacum , Donegium , Denoma , Dunaing , Denen , Denain , Duonenin .

Population development

year 1936 1946 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2008
Residents 26,478 24,908 27,449 29,467 27,973 26.204 21,825 19,544 20,354 20,339 20,221

economy

Disused coal shaft

Up until the 1950s, the area around Denain was a typical coal mining area . This attracted the steel industry, which relies on huge amounts of coal, which is used as a reducing agent , to refine iron ore . With the decline of the French steel industry in the course of globalization , the region began to suffer from very considerable economic structural problems. Since the announcement of the elimination of 6,000 jobs at the Usinor- Denain iron and steel works on December 2, 1978 , unemployment has remained endemic in the city. Only 27% of households now have a taxable income (almost 50% in France) and the unemployment rate is around 31%. In 2010, the online business portal Le Journal du Net examined the economic strength of all French cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants. Denain was classified as the poorest municipality in France.

Houses of worship

Catholic

  • Church Église Saint-Martin of the parish of Sainte-Remfroye-en-Denaisis
  • Church of Église Sainte-Marie
  • Chapel Chapelle Saint-Joseph

Islamic

  • The mosque Mosquée Errahma is operated by the L'Association des Marocains de Denain et de sa Région (AMDR).
  • The Mosquée al-Quds mosque is operated by the L'Association des musulmans de Denain .

Evangelical

  • The Baptist Church Église Baptiste on Rue Jules Mousseron

Attractions

Denain Museum

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Denain

Personalities

The glamorous Espace Villars stop in Denain is the terminus of tram line A from Valenciennes. It also serves as a bus terminal for the surrounding area.

Town twinning

  • Mettet (Belgium) since 2011
  • As early as 1967, on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the Wartburg, a town partnership with Eisenach had been prepared and approved in the Denain town council, but the GDR leadership prohibited this project. The close contacts between the two cities lasted until the 1970s.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 620-630.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969
  2. ^ Statistique archéologique du département du Nord - Seconde partie , vol. 1, p. 400. Lille & Paris 1867.
  3. ↑ Les événements d'Usinor Denain racontés par des Douchynois on La Voix du Nord of November 25, 2008.
  4. ^ Denain et Roubaix sont les villes les plus pauvres on L'Éco du Nord of November 10, 2010.
  5. ↑ Impôt sur le revenu: moins de la moitié the foyers fiscaux imposables
  6. ^ Denain, la ville jadis prospère La Voix du Nord of December 23, 2010.
  7. ↑ Le classement des villes les plus pauvres de France

Web links

Commons : Denain  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Denain in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts