Hazebrouck

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Hazebrouck
Hazebrouck Coat of Arms
Hazebrouck (France)
Hazebrouck
region Hauts-de-France
Department North
Arrondissement Dunkerque
Canton Hazebrouck (main town)
Community association Flandre Intérieure
Coordinates 50 ° 43 '  N , 2 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '  N , 2 ° 32'  E
height 17-66 m
surface 26.20 km 2
Residents 21,441 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 818 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 59190
INSEE code 59295
Website www.ville-hazebrouck.fr

Hazebrouck City Hall

Hazebrouck ( Flemish Hazebroek ) is a French town in Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France in the historic West Flemish -speaking region French Flanders . Hazebrouck has 21,441 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) and is the capital of the canton Hazebrouck , formerly cantons Hazebrouck-Nord and Hazebrouck-Sud .

location

Hazebrouck is 40 km from Dunkirk , 43 km from Lille , 56 km from Arras , 62 km from Calais and 16 km from the Belgian border . It's a quiet city, mostly with residential areas.

history

Hazebrouck was an important supply post in World War I for the Allies. The German spring offensive of 1918 was also directed against this city . The Germans failed to take Hazebrouck, which meant that the offensive plan could not be fulfilled.

On December 30, 1941, a serious railway accident occurred near Hazebrouck , in which 50 people died.

Architectural monuments

See: List of Monuments historiques in Hazebrouck

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 823-835.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hedley Paul Willmott : The First World War . Dorling Kindersley , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8310-1414-9 .
  2. ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 107.

Web links

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