Marchiennes
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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 | |
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
- Speldhurst , Kent , UK, since 1998
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
Individual evidence
- ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969