Linselles
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region | Hauts-de-France | |
Department | North | |
Arrondissement | Lille | |
Canton | Lambersart | |
Community association | Métropole Européenne de Lille | |
Coordinates | 50 ° 44 ′ N , 3 ° 5 ′ E | |
height | 17-52 m | |
surface | 11.71 km 2 | |
Residents | 8,371 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 715 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 59126 | |
INSEE code | 59352 | |
Website | www.ville-linselles.com |
Linselles ( Dutch : Linzele ) is a French municipality with 8371 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France .
The municipality is located around 15 kilometers north of the city of Lille near the border with Belgium and is part of the European metropolitan region of Lille .
It is surrounded by the municipalities (clockwise from the north) Wervicq-Sud , Bousbecque , Roncq , Quesnoy-sur-Deûle , Wambrechies , Bondues and Comines .
history
The place was probably mentioned for the first time in 867 in a document from Charles the Bald . In 1114 the Latin name Lencelam is mentioned.
The Nativité de Notre Dame (Virgin Mary's Birth) Church was built from 1923 to 1926 . The old church was blown up in 1918, at the end of the First World War , by German troops in retreat.
Town twinning
The community has had a town partnership with the former Schiefbahn community since 1966 , which has been part of the new town of Willich ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) since 1970 , which took over the partnership. Since 1991 there has also been a partnership with Zogoré ( Burkina Faso ).
Architectural monuments
See: List of Monuments historiques in Linselles
Personalities
- Patrick Gallois (* 1956), flautist and conductor
- Pascal Gallois (* 1958), bassoonist and music teacher
- Thierry Venant (* 1960), archer
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 1563-1565.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969
- ↑ Notre Dame du Partage - Linselles: l'église Nativité de Notre-Dame ( French , accessed on September 28, 2017)