Haulchin

Haulchin
region	Hauts-de-France
Department	North
Arrondissement	Valenciennes
Canton	Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes
Community association	Porte du Hainaut
Coordinates	50 ° 19 ′  N , 3 ° 26 ′  E 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
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 )

Church of the Assumption

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 1655-1656.

Web links

Commons : Haulchin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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