Pecquencourt
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region | Hauts-de-France | |
Department | North | |
Arrondissement | Douai | |
Canton | Sin-le-Noble | |
Community association | Cœur d'Ostre event | |
Coordinates | 50 ° 23 ' N , 3 ° 13' E | |
height | 16-27 m | |
surface | 9.6 km 2 | |
Residents | 6,011 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 626 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 59146 | |
INSEE code | 59456 | |
Website | www.pecquencourt.fr/ |
Pecquencourt (NDL .: "Visser Hoven") is a French municipality with 6011 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 (until 2015: Canton Marchiennes ).
Neighboring municipalities of Pecquencourt are Vred in the northeast, Rieulay in the east, Bruille-lez-Marchiennes in the southeast, Masny and Écaillon in the south, Montigny-en-Ostrevent in the southwest and Lallaing and Marchiennes in the northwest.
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2015 |
Residents | 8772 | 8911 | 7934 | 7387 | 6718 | 6355 | 5939 | 5942 |
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Pecquencourt
- Saint-Gilles Church (13th and 19th centuries)
- Former Anchin Abbey ( Monument historique )
Town twinning
- Sondershausen , Thuringia, Germany, since 1969
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 1114-1117.
Web links
Commons : Pecquencourt - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Pequicoure in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian) - sources and full texts
Individual evidence
- ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969