Leuze-en-Hainaut

Leuze-en-Hainaut
Leuze-en-Hainaut
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Hainaut
District :	Tournai-Mouscron
Coordinates :	50 ° 36 ′  N , 3 ° 37 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′  N , 3 ° 37 ′  E
Area :	73.53 km²
Residents:	13,850 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density:	188 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	7900, 7901, 7903, 7904, 7906
Prefix:	069
Mayor:	Lucien Rawart ( MR )
Local government address :	Avenue de la résistance, 1 7900 Leuze-en-Hainaut
Website:	www.leuze-en-hainaut.be

Saint-Pierre Collegiate Church.

Leuze-en-Hainaut is a municipality in the province of Hainaut in the Walloon part of Belgium .

structure

The municipality consists of the localities of Leuze-en-Hainaut, Blicquy, Chapelle-à-Oie, Chapelle-à-Wattines, Grandmetz, Theuilain, Gallaix, Pipaix, Tourpes and Willaupuis .

Community partnerships

• Loudun ( France ), since 1961
• Ouagadougou ( Burkina Faso ), since 1966
• Carencro ( USA ), since 1993

Attractions

The municipality is the location of the Musée Communal de l'Automobile Mahymobiles .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Thierry Marichal (* 1973), racing cyclist

People connected to the place

• Philippe Augustin Hennequin , French painter, died in Leuze-en-Hainaut in 1833.

literature

• Sigfried Jan de Laet:  BLICQUY Belgium . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .

Web links

Commons : Leuze-en-Hainaut  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Leuse in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Official website of the municipality of Leuze-en-Hainaut (French)