Quiévy
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region | Hauts-de-France | |
Department | North | |
Arrondissement | Cambrai | |
Canton | Caudry | |
Community association | Caudrésis et Catésis | |
Coordinates | 50 ° 10 ′ N , 3 ° 26 ′ E | |
height | 75-117 m | |
surface | 6.86 km 2 | |
Residents | 1,783 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 260 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 59214 | |
INSEE code | 59485 | |
Website | http://www.mairie-quievy.fr/public/ | |
Quiévy town center with church (Besin square) |
Quiévy ( Dutch Kevi ) is a French village with 1,783 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Cambrai and the canton of Caudry (until 2015: canton of Carnières ). The inhabitants are called Esquiévins .
geography
Quiévy is about 13 kilometers east of Cambrai . Quiévy is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Hilaire-lez-Cambrai in the north, Bévillers in the north, Viesly in the east, Béthencourt in the south and Bévillers in the north-west.
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
Residents | 2,534 | 2,469 | 2,297 | 2,082 | 1,848 | 1,731 | 1,700 | 1,767 |
Source: Cassini and INSEE |
Attractions
- Catholic Church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation
- Protestant church from 1858
Personalities
- Auguste Herbin (1882–1960), painter
- Geneviève Claisse (1935–2018), painter
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 434-436.
Web links
Commons : Quiévy - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969