Widdebrouck
Widdebrouck ( Dutch : Widdebroek ) is a hamlet in the French town of Aire-sur-la-Lys in the Pas-de-Calais department .
geography
Widdebrouck is three kilometers northeast of the city center of Aire-sur-la-Lys. The hamlet is located between the city center and the border with the Nord department and the municipality of Boëseghem . There are 2 mountains in Widdebrouck: Blanc Widdebrouck in the south and Noir Widdebrouck in the north. The Leie flows south of the hamlet.
history
An old mention of the place comes from the year 1100 as Widebroc. Religiously, the place depended on the parish of Saint-Martin. Officially, however, she did not fall under Aries, but under the castellans of Kassel in Flanders . When French and Picardy were already spoken in Aire-sur-la-Lys , Flemish was still spoken in Widdebrouck . The Romanization of the place took place relatively late.
The place was in the 17th century in a disputed area between the French king and the Spanish Netherlands . After the French siege of Aire-sur-la-Lys in 1641, Philip IV of Spain had Fort Saint-François in Widdebrouck built in 1642.
At the end of the Ancien Régime , Widdebrouck was incorporated into the municipality of Aire-sur-la-Lys.
Individual evidence
- ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ' N , 2 ° 26' E