Haulchin
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region | Hauts-de-France | |
Department | North | |
Arrondissement | Valenciennes | |
Canton | Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes | |
Community association | Porte du Hainaut | |
Coordinates | 50 ° 19 ′ N , 3 ° 26 ′ E | |
height | 27-72 m | |
surface | 5.15 km 2 | |
Residents | 2,306 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 448 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 59121 | |
INSEE code | 59288 | |
Website | http://www.haulchin.fr/ | |
Haulchin Town Hall |
Haulchin ( Dutch : Halcim) is a French municipality with 2306 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the municipality of La Porte du Hainaut , the arrondissement Valenciennes and is part of the canton Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes (until 2015: canton Valenciennes-Sud ). The inhabitants are called Haulchinois (es) .
geography
The canalized Scheldt (French: Escaut ) flows through the municipality . Haulchin is surrounded by the neighboring communities Wavrechain-sous-Denain in the north, Rouvignies in the northeast, Prouvy in the east, Thiant in the south and southeast, Douchy-les-Mines in the southwest and Denain in the west.
The A2 autoroute and the former Route nationale 30 (today's D630) run through the municipality .
history
The place was first mentioned in a document in 877, when Charles the Bald gave the place to the monastery of Denain.
Population development
1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
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2,070 | 2,732 | 2,945 | 2,746 | 2,651 | 2,566 | 2,377 | 2,329 |
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Haulchin
- Church of the Assumption ( Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption )
- Pyramid, memorial for the Battle of Denain from 1712, built in 1781 ( Monument historique )
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 1655-1656.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969