Enquin-les-Mines

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Enquin-les-Mines
Enquin-les-Mines coat of arms
Enquin-les-Mines (France)
Enquin-les-Mines
local community Enquin-lez-Guinean husband
region Hauts-de-France
Department Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement Saint-Omer
Coordinates 50 ° 35 ′  N , 2 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′  N , 2 ° 17 ′  E
Post Code 62145
Former INSEE code 62295
Incorporation January 1, 2017
status Commune déléguée
Website www.enquinlesmines.fr

former town hall (Mairie) of Enquin-les-Mines

Enquin-les-Mines ( Dutch sinking ) is a commune Déléguée in the French commune of Enquin-lez-Guinegatte with 1,169 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Pas-de-Calais in the region of Hauts-de-France .

The municipality of Enquin-les-Mines merged with Enguinegatte on January 1st, 2017 to form the Commune nouvelle Enquin-lez-Guinegatte. It belonged to the arrondissement of Saint-Omer and the canton of Fruges (until 2015: canton of Fauquembergues ).

geography

Enquin-les-Mines is about 22 kilometers south of Saint-Omer and about 16 kilometers west-northwest of Béthune . The municipality of Enquin-les-Mines was surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Enguinegatte in the north and northwest, Blessy in the northeast, Estrée-Blanche in the east, Rely in the southeast, Fléchin in the south and Erny-Saint-Julien in the west.

Population development

1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2013
1,026 944 856 825 869 917 975 1,141
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint-Omer church in Enquin from the 15th century
  • Saint-Germain church in the hamlet of Serny
  • Saint-Wandrille chapel in the locality of Fléchinelle
  • Manor of the Knights Templar from the 14th century
  • spanish mill
  • Serny Mill from 1635

Web links

Commons : Enquin-les-Mines  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969