Marchiennes

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Marchiennes
Marchiennes Coat of Arms
Marchiennes (France)
Marchiennes
region Hauts-de-France
Department North
Arrondissement Douai
Canton Sin-le-Noble
Community association Cœur d'Ostre event
Coordinates 50 ° 25 ′  N , 3 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′  N , 3 ° 17 ′  E
height 15-21 m
surface 21.44 km 2
Residents 4,590 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 214 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 59870
INSEE code 59375
Website http://www.marchiennes.fr/

Marchiennes (NDL .: "Marsenne") is a French municipality with 4590 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Douai and the canton of Sin-le-Noble .

Neighboring municipalities of Marchiennes are Beuvry-la-Forêt in the north, Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes in the northeast, Warlaing in the east, Wandignies-Hamage in the southeast, Rieulay in the south, Vred and Pecquencourt in the southwest, Flines-lez-Raches in the west and Bouvignies in the Northwest.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008
Residents 3417 3375 3267 3564 4164 4636 4726

Attractions

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Marchiennes

  • Marchiennes Abbey (Benedictine)

Others

In his novel " Germinal ", which is set in the coal mining area of ​​northern France around 1865, Emile Zola settled the fictional mining town of " Montsou " near Marchiennes.

Personalities

  • Poppo von Stablo (978-1048), canonized abbot, died in Marchiennes
  • Jean-Baptiste Corbineau (1776–1848), Imperial General, born in Marchiennes
  • Hercule Corbineau (1780–1823), Imperial General, born in Marchiennes
  • Félix Labisse (1905–1982), surrealist painter, born in Marchiennes
  • Jean Moral (1906–1999), photographer, born in Marchiennes
  • Jules Mougin (1912-2010), poet, born in Marchiennes
  • Alain Deloeuil (* 1954), cyclist, born in Marchiennes

Town twinning

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 1109-1114.
  • B. Delmaire: L'histoire-polyptyque de l'abbaye de Marchiennes . Étude critique et édition, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1985.
  • Daniel Gras: Marchiennes et Beuvry-La-Forêt . Saint-Cyr-sur Loire, 2010.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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