Quaregnon

Quaregnon
Quaregnon
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Hainaut
District :	Mons
Coordinates :	50 ° 26 '  N , 3 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '  N , 3 ° 52'  E
Area :	11.08 km²
Residents:	19.007 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density:	1,715 inhabitants per km²
Height:	52  m
Post Code:	7390
Prefix:	065
Mayor:	Guy Roland ( PS )
Local government address :	Grand Place, 1 7390 Quaregnon
Website:	www.quaregnon.be

Quaregnon is a municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut . It is a suburb of the city of Mons in the industrial area of Borinage .

Here the Quaregnon Charter , the program of the Belgian Workers' Party ( PSB / BSP ) , was adopted in 1894 .

Town twinning

• Condé-sur-l'Escaut in the Nord department, France
• Ay in Champagne, France
• Assoro in Sicily, Italy
• Besigheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Bátaszék , Hungary
• Newton Abbot in Devon, UK

people

• Théodore Nisard (1812–1888), French clergyman, organist and musicologist
• Marcel Limage (* 1929), boxer
• Philippe Albert Joseph Stevens (* 1937), Belgian-Cameroonian clergyman and bishop emeritus
• Albert Liénard (1938–2011), politician

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  Tower of the old Saint-Quentin church with a memorial to those who fell in the First World War

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  new Saint-Quentin church (built 1934)

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  town hall

Web links

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