Vendin-le-Vieil
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Pas-de-Calais | |
| Arrondissement | Lens | |
| Canton | Wingles | |
| Community association | Lens-Liévin | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 28 ′ N , 2 ° 52 ′ E | |
| height | 20-66 m | |
| surface | 10.67 km 2 | |
| Residents | 8,608 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 807 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 62880 | |
| INSEE code | 62842 | |
| Website | http://vendin-le-vieil.fr/ | |
 Town hall ( mairie ) of Vendin-le-Vieil |
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Vendin-le-Vieil (Flemish: Oudwenden ) is a French municipality with 8608 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Pas-de-Calais in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Lens and is part of the canton of Wingles .
geography
Vendin-le-Vieil is located directly northeast of Lens in the northern French coal basin and is framed by the Canal de la Deûle and the Canal de Lens .
Vendin-le-Vieil is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Wingles in the north, Meurchin in the northeast, Pont-à-Vendin in the east, Annay in the southeast, Loison-sous-Lens in the south, Lens in the south and southwest, Loos-en-Gohelle in the West and Bénifontaine to the northwest.
The Route nationale 47 runs along the edge of the municipality .
history
The village appears as Wendinium as a place within the County of Artois in the late 10th century (996) for the first time in the books of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Gand.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, coal mining declined and the mines closed.
Population development
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
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| 7.121 | 7,239 | 6,866 | 6,934 | 6,938 | 6,798 | 7.007 | 7,680 |
Attractions
- Saint-Leger church, reconstructed after its destruction in the First World War
- Saint-Auguste church
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969