Wallers

This article describes the community of Wallers in the French department of Nord. Another municipality in the same department is called Wallers-en-Fagne .

Wallers
region	Hauts-de-France
Department	North
Arrondissement	Valenciennes
Canton	Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
Community association	Porte du Hainaut
Coordinates	50 ° 23 '  N , 3 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '  N , 3 ° 24'  E
height	15-135 m
surface	20.89 km 2
Residents	5,526 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	265 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	59135
INSEE code	59632
Website	www.ville-de-wallers-arenberg.fr

Wallers (NDL .: Wallaar) is a French municipality with 5526 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France . With its Wallers-Arenberg mine , the community is of industrial historical importance. Thanks to the Trouée d'Arenberg , an important passage in the Paris – Roubaix cycle race , Wallers also has a tourist significance that goes beyond industrial culture.

history

The Wallers-Arenberg mine, closed in 1989, has been preserved as a museum

The area around Wallers was already populated by humans over 45,000 years ago. This is indicated by human traces in the form of flint tools. Wallers was probably founded by the Merovingians . Wallers experienced its heyday in the 19th and 20th centuries. During this time two mines as well as sugar factories , breweries , brickworks , an enamel factory and a distillery were built . At the same time, the population increased from 1852 in 1801 to 7659 in 1954.

Architectural monuments

See: List of Monuments historiques in Wallers

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 1717-1719.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Wallers-Arenberg (French)
• Wallers-Arenberg mine industrial monument

Individual evidence

1. ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969