Philippeville

Philippeville
	Philippeville
	Philippeville
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Namur
District :	Philippeville
Coordinates :	50 ° 12 ' N , 4 ° 33' E Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ' N , 4 ° 33' E
Area :	156.71 km²
Residents:	9289 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density:	59 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	5600
Prefix:	071
Mayor:	Jacques Rousselle ( PS )
; Local government address :	Administration Communale ; Place d'Armes 12 ; 5600 Philippeville
Website:	www.philippeville.be

Philippeville is a former fortress town and a municipality in the province of Namur in the Walloon part of Belgium .

The municipality consists of the districts of Philippeville, Fagnolle, Franchimont, Jamagne, Jamiolle, Merlemont, Neuville, Omezée, Roly, Romedenne , Samart, Sart-en-Fagne, Sautour, Surice , Villers-en-Fagne, Villers-le-Gambon and Vodecée.

history

After King Henry II of France took the fortress of Mariembourg 11 km to the south in 1554, Maria of Hungary , sister of Emperor Charles V and governor of the Netherlands , fortified the town of Corbigny . The fortress was laid out from 1555 on the same principles as before Mariembourg, with star-shaped streets around a central square, and was named Philippeville after her nephew Philipp . The location on a hill in an otherwise flat area made the place suitable for fortification.

With the Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659, France won the city - for more than a century and a half. After a visitation, Louis XIV had the fortifications improved by Vauban . With the Second Peace of Paris on November 20, 1815, it came to the newly founded United Kingdom of the Netherlands . Philippeville has belonged to this since the breakup of Belgium in 1830.

Below the city is a network of underground passages from the 17th century, which once connected the outer forts to the fortress. A section of these 10 km long corridors is open to the public.

Town twinning

Saulieu ( France )

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny (1762–1842), composer

People who worked on site

Lazarus von Schwendi (1522–1583) was the first fortress commander of Philippeville. Therefore, the community also belongs to the Lazarus-von-Schwendi-Städtebund .

Web links

Commons : Philippeville - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Philipps-Stadt in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Saint-Philippe church