Pecquencourt

Pecquencourt
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 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

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