Mazingarbe
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Pas-de-Calais | |
| Arrondissement | Lens | |
| Canton | Bully-les-Mines | |
| Community association | Lens-Liévin | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 28 ' N , 2 ° 43' E | |
| height | 26-74 m | |
| surface | 10.29 km 2 | |
| Residents | 8,053 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 783 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 62670 | |
| INSEE code | 62563 | |
| Website | www.ville-mazingarbe.fr | |
Mazingarbe (NDL .: "Mazengarve") is a French municipality with 8053 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Pas-de-Calais in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the canton of Bully-les-Mines in the Arrondissement of Lens . The place is also part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Lens-Liévin , an agglomeration of 36 municipalities with around 250,000 inhabitants.
geography
Mazingarbe is located in La Gohelle , in the northeastern part of the flat land around Lens between the hills of Artois and the Bas-Pays , the lowlands to the north. Two small valleys run through the urban area, one, Le Marais de Bray , on the western edge, the second the valley of the Surgeon stream flowing in a north-south direction .
history
The area of today's Mazingarbe was first discovered in the 4th millennium BC. Settled. Neolithic farmers grew crops and raised sheep, pigs and cattle. Numerous worked flints have been found from this era .
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In several excavations, utensils such as pottery and clay bricks as well as tools and jewelry from Gallic times were found; Finds of bones also prove a settlement around the turn of the times with a larger farmed property ( Villa rustica ) on Le Marais de Bray . This Gallo-Roman farm was destroyed by fire in the second half of the 3rd century.
The settlement was first mentioned in a document in 1046. Baldwin V , Count of Flanders , confirmed to the Abbey of Marchiennes that it owned a villa in Mazengarba . These and their lands remained the property of the Benedictine monastery until the Revolution . During this time the people of Mazingarbe lived almost exclusively from agriculture. By 1790 it had grown to 328 residents.
Mining began in the Pas-de-Calais around 1850 . When the first shaft of the coal mine in Mazingarbe was opened in 1859 , the number of inhabitants was 800. In 1876 and 1877, two more shafts were added. As industry grew, so did the population, and Mazingarbe was home to immigrants from Belgium , Italy, and especially Poland . A factory for processing hard coal opened at the turn of the century has become a center of the chemical industry over the years .
Mazingarbe suffered severe damage during the Grande Guerre ; the front ran only two kilometers from the place. During World War II , factories were bombed; 27 people were killed in an air raid in the Brebis settlement.
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Individual evidence
- ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969