Pervets

Pervets
Pervets
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Walloon Brabant
District :	Nivelles
Coordinates :	50 ° 37 ′  N , 4 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′  N , 4 ° 49 ′  E
Area :	50.81 km²
Residents:	9303 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density:	183 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	1360
Prefix:	081
Mayor:	André Antoine
Local government address :	Administration communale Rue Emile de Brabant 1360 Perwez
Website:	www.perwez.be

Perwez ( Walloon Perwé , Dutch Perwijs ) is a municipality in the French-speaking province of Walloon Brabant in Belgium . It consists of the five districts : Malèves-Sainte-Marie-Wastines , Orbais , Perwez , Thorembais-les-Béguines and Thorembais-Saint-Trond .

geography

The municipality of Perwez is located in the southeast of the province of Walloon Brabant in the loamy hills of the Haspengau ( La Hesbaye ), 40 km from Brussels. Perwez borders the municipalities of Incourt , Walhain and Ramillies in Walloon Brabant, as well as Gembloux and Éghezée in the province of Namur .

history

The center of the community emerged in the Middle Ages. At that time it was on the border of the Duchy of Brabant and the County of Namur .

By the royal decree on the merger of municipalities of September 1st, 1975, which was ratified on December 30th, the municipal boundaries were reorganized. Since 1977 Malèves-Sante-Marie-Wastines, Orbais, Perwez, Thorembais-les-Béguines and Thorembais-Saint-Trond form a new municipality called Perwez.

politics

mayor

Perwez Town Hall

The following table gives an overview of the mayors of Perwez and the municipalities of Malèves-Sainte-Marie-Wastines, Orbais, Thorembais-les-Béguines and Thorembais-Saint-Trond, which were independent until 1977.

Pervets 1830-1856 Maximilien Baugniet 1856-1867 Charles Brabant 1867-1870 Edmond de Burlet 1870-1879 Charles Brabant 1879-1893 Edmond de Burlet 1896-1901 Ernest Baugniet 1903-1907 Emile de Brabant 1908-1912 Joseph Naniot 1912-1921 Marcellin Wilmart 1921-1927 Joseph Marcoux 1927-1933 François Vanherck 1933-1936 Joseph Marcoux 1936-1939 Louis Demoulin 1939-1953 Léon Deprez 1953-1977 Jules Jacquemin Pervets after the parish merger 1977-1997 Marcel Strale 1997-2001 Serge Heusling since 2001 André Antoine

Thorembais Saint-Trond 1958-1964 Joseph Lempereur 1965-1977 Charles Hanquet Malèves / Ste-Marie / Wastines 1965-1967 Marcel Istas Orbais 1959-1977 Paul Coppin Thorembais-les-Béguines 1965-1977 René Seha

Parish partnership

Since 2008 there has been a community partnership between Perwez and the French community of Kaysersberg in Alsace .

Economy and Infrastructure

Perwez is a farming village. Grain, beets, corn, potatoes and rape thrive on the loamy soil.

Perwez is halfway between Namur and Wavre . The municipality is connected to the E411 motorway and the national roads N21 (between Tirlement and Charleroi ) and N51 (between Leuven and Namur).

Culture and sights

building

Saint Martin Church

The originally Gothic Saint Martin Church in Perwez has been redesigned several times or rebuilt after being destroyed, and the last time it was thoroughly restored in 1840–1848. She has three renaissance style naves . The bell tower, whose three-part top is shaped like two octagonal bells of different sizes, which are separated by a perforated central part, is striking.

The Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in Wastines, dedicated to John the Baptist , was built in 1855 according to plans by the architect Moreau in the neoclassical style with three naves. The sandstone tower of the dilapidated previous building, dating from the 13th century, was integrated and given a new octagonal tip.

The Assumption Church Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Sainte-Marie was built between 1908 and 1913 on the remains of an old church in neo-Gothic style . The tower from the 11th / 12th. It was made of sandstone in the 16th century and, similar to that of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, has an octagonal bell tower. The sacristy (13th century) was also integrated into the new building.

The three-aisled church of Saint-Ulric in Malèves was built in 1865 according to plans by the architect Coulon on the ruins of an older church in neo-Gothic style from bricks with stone corners. The square tower rising from the center of the entrance facade has a pyramid-shaped top. A black marble cenotaph and a grave slab for Louis de Stradio († 1577) and Marguerite de Berghes are embedded in the left wall of the choir .

The Saint Lambert Church in Orbais was built in 1762 on the ruins of a medieval structure. The small tower with an octagonal top was reconstructed in 1842. The Gothic cross in the choir dates from the 16th century. Since a severe fever epidemic came to an end around 1766 after the celebration of a series of services in honor of St. Wivine , she became the second patroness of the community after Lambert . Wivine is the patron saint of small children and families, which is why she is invoked above all for eye and throat diseases, fever and pleurisy, but also for all animal diseases.

The Saint-Trond church in Thorembais-Saint-Trond was built in 1785 on the ruins of the smaller previous building based on plans by the architect Nivoy. The square tower in Romanesque style was retained. As early as 1172, in the presence of the lord of Orbais, a small parish church was bought by the Bonne-Espérance Abbey.

Since the 12th century there was a church in Thorembais-les-Béguines, which at that time belonged to the Abbey of Villers-la-Ville . The current three-aisled church Saint-Roch et Saint-Martin was built in 1851 in the neoclassical style . Its square tower has a 23 m high top.

Others

In Perwez there is a theater ( La Bonne Entente ) and a puppet theater ( Théâtre des Gros Nez ). The traveling circus Les Baladins du Miroir is also based here.

With the Center d'Expression et de Créativité de Perwez (CECP, Center for Expression and Creativity) there is a music educational institution in Perwez. Her original goal was early musical education , today it is open to interested people of all ages.

The Association Cercle Historique de Perwez, founded in 1985, deals with the history of all parts of today's Perwez municipality. Since 1986 it has published a magazine ( Le Souvenir Perwézien ), which appears every three months with a new edition.

There are several sports clubs in Perwez. You can learn volleyball, soccer, tennis, table tennis, beach tennis, judo and subakdo (a Korean martial art) or take part in fitness training in the Popeye Club.

The local radio station Must FM was created on April 16, 1993 in Perwez in collaboration between a computer scientist and radio amateurs . The IT program Virtual Studio was developed, which manages the broadcast of Jingels and commercials and makes it possible to create permanent music programs for operation without a radio announcer. This program has become a necessary working tool for many professional and non-professional radio stations also outside Belgium in France, Luxembourg and in the future in Canada and Germany.

The local television station, which has existed since 1973, was founded as Télévision Communautaire Gembloutoise (TvCG) and has been called Canal Zoom since 1984 . It is based in Sauvenière , a district of Gembloux , and is the smallest of the twelve local broadcasters in the French Community . Since 1976 it can be received via cable in Gembloux, Chastre , Perwez and Walhain (with the exception of Nil-Saint-Vincent).

In 2006 Perwez received the Villes et Villages fleuris award . It is awarded every year by the province of Walloon Brabant to cities and villages that make a special effort to beautify public spaces with flowers.

Web links

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

• Perwez website (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayor of Perwez (French) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Saint Martin Church in Perwez (French) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church in Wastines (French) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Sainte-Marie (French) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Saint-Ulric Church in Malèves (French) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Saint Lambert Church in Orbais (French) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Saint-Trond Church in Thorembais-Saint-Trond (French) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Saint-Roch-et-Saint-Martin Church in Thorembais-les-Béguines (French) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Historical Association of Perwez (French) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Radio Must FM (French)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ History of Canal Zoom (French) ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Villes et Villages fleuris (French) ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.