Frasnes-lez-Couvin
Frasnes-lez-Couvin (in Walloon Fråne-dilé-Couvén ) is a hamlet in the Belgian province of Namur , which belongs to the municipality of Couvin .
Geography and history
The village is located in the Wallonia region and is accessed from the N5 national road in the section between Philippeville and Couvin. There is also a railway connection that ends in Couvin. The village has a church (Saint-Remi) that was restored between 1969 and 1971.
The settlement extends on the edge of a limestone range that slopes slightly to the north . To the west and east of it are forest areas. In Roman times , the area was dominated by forests with a large population of ash trees (Latin Fraxinum, genus Fraxinus ). The current francophone place name is derived from this.
In the early Middle Ages, the region belonged to the Sainte-Marie church of Chevremont (Liège), which is mentioned in a document from Charlemagne on May 3, 779. After 844, the village became the property of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.
During the First World War , many houses and infrastructure suffered considerable damage. Due to the Belgian municipal reform in 1977, the village became a district of Couvin.
geology
The village received its supraregional importance through the transfer of its name to the lower chronostratigraphic level of the Upper Devonian ( Devonian ), the frasnium . On the western edge of the village are the old quarries Carrières du Nord , Sainte-Barbe and Four à Chaux du Lion , in which Devonian limestone is exposed. The transition from the Givet / Middle Frasnium to the Eifelium (former Couvinium) runs to the west and south of the village . In the Lion group of the Grands Breux Formation , which has been developed from the quarries, there are gray limestones with reef-forming fossils (e.g. stromatopores ).
The main municipality of Couvin was also responsible for a Devonian stage (French: Couvinien) until 1984 on the recommendation of the sub-commission for Devonstratigraphy, a correction in favor of the name Eifel stage was made.
literature
- Jean-Marc Marion / Laurent Barchy: Chimay-Couvin n ° 57 / 7-8, notice explicative . Namur (Ministere de la region Wallone) 1999
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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ' N , 4 ° 31' E