Grove (river)

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grove
The grove in Braine-le-Château

The grove in Braine-le-Château

Data
location Walloon Brabant Province , Belgium
River system Scheldt
Drain over Charleroi-Brussels Canal  → Brussels-Scheldt Sea Canal  → Scheldt  → North Sea
source in Lillois-Witterzée (municipality of Braine-l'Alleud )
50 ° 38 ′ 54 ″  N , 4 ° 23 ′ 13 ″  E
muzzle at Clabecq (municipality of Tubize ) in the Charleroi-Brussels Canal Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 56 ″  N , 4 ° 13 ′ 26 ″  E 50 ° 40 ′ 56 ″  N , 4 ° 13 ′ 26 ″  E

length 25 km
Communities Braine-l'Alleud , Braine-le-Château

The Hain is a river in Belgium that lies entirely in the province of Walloon Brabant over its 25 km course . Originally it flowed into the Senne and therefore belongs to the Scheldt river system . Today, however, it feeds the Charleroi-Brussels Canal .

It is not to be confused with the grove , which also belongs to the Scheldt river system and mainly flows in the province of Hainaut .

River name

The river used to be called Braine in French and Brakel in Dutch , this name can still be found in several Walloon and Flemish village names in its course.

The place Ophain initially had no relation to today's river name Hain, but was originally called "Opheim". The river was initially called ri d'Ophain in Walloon , which later interpreted the place name as "Op de Hain" and the river name changed to Hain.

geography

The source of the grove is located on the Brabant plateau in the sub-municipality Lillois-Witterzée of the municipality Braine-l'Alleud , it flows through the villages and parts of the municipality:

  • Ophain and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac (who also belong to Braine-l'Alleud today)
  • Wauthier-Braine (Dutch: Woutersbrakel; municipality of Braine-le-Château)
  • Braine-l'Alleud (Dutch: Eigenbrakel)
  • Braine-le-Château (Dutch: Kasteelbrakel)

and flows into the Charleroi-Brussels Canal near Clabecq, part of the Tubize municipality .

proof

  1. ^ Dictionnaire des noms de lieux en Wallonie et à Bruxelles , Jean-Jacques Jespers, Lannoo Uitgeverij, 2005. ISBN 2873864095