Landas

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Landas
Landas coat of arms
Landas (France)
Landas
region Hauts-de-France
Department North
Arrondissement Douai
Canton Orchies
Community association Pévèle-Carembault
Coordinates 50 ° 28 ′  N , 3 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′  N , 3 ° 18 ′  E
height 18-48 m
surface 11.95 km 2
Residents 2,399 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 201 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 59310
INSEE code 59330
Website http://www.mairie-landas.fr/

Landas (NDL .: "Landast") is a French municipality with 2,399 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Douai and the Canton of Orchies .

geography

Neighboring municipalities of Landas are Aix-en-Pévèle in the north, Saméon in the east, Rosult and Sars-et-Rosières in the south-east, Beuvry-la-Forêt in the south, Orchies in the west and Nomain in the north-west.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007
Residents 1,765 1,706 1,838 2.006 2,038 2,259 2,341

Attractions

  • Saint-Vaast church with a bell from 1285

Personalities

  • Miron Zlatin (1904–1944), director of the Izieu children's home in the Ain department , and his wife Sabine Zlatin (1907–1996), resistance fighter and painter; The couple owned a poultry farm in Landas from 1929 (see also Izieu's children )

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 1281-1283.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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