Bousbecque

Bousbecque (in Dutch: Boesbeke or Busbeke ) is a common French, located in the department of the Northern (59) and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Its inhabitants is called Bousbecquois.

Geography

Separated from the Belgium by the Lily, Bousbecque is located at the North-West of Tourcoing, its chief town of canton.

History

Origins

The origin of the name come from Flemish " bosch" (wood) and of " beke" (brook) what means the brook of the wood of others think that it was quoted for the first time in 1143 and resulting from buscus and becque, Busbeca mean the same thing as the first. One finds this toponymy in Becque of Wood.

The Roman way of turned has Wervicq passes by bousbecque what proves that the city is already inhabited at the time Gallo-Roman.

The Seigniory, known as initially " of Rume" , is set up in Baronnie in 1600. This one passes from the families of the Lily to Pontenerie then, by marriage, in Ghiselin, the end of the XVe century. In 1487, Georges Ghiselin, Chamberlain of the Archduke Maximilien, is decapitated by the Brugean ones revolted.

It is in Bousbecque that Turenne beats the army of prince de Ligne before seizing Comines.

It should be noted that according to the legend, Auger de Bousbecque, which was ambassador of king d' Espagne, brought back its voyages in the East of the rare Plante S for the Jardin S of Bousbecque: tulips, lilac…

Administration

Demography

Graph of evolution of the population

Economy

The flax is already cultivated at the time of César, for the manufacture of the fabric. In 1352 the clothiers bousbecquois obtain the authorization to affix their clean scel lead on their fabrics. The industry of the flax is prosperous what allows the town of be at the XVIIIe century the French locality which manufactures the most flax. At the end of the XIXe century a crisis of the flax due to the Russian concurrrence in particular has as a consequence the end of this activitée and the reconversion in the industry of paper.

Places and monuments

  • Church Saint Martin's day (1480 and 1874) building out of bricks and stone rebuilt with identical in 1874.

  • the mausoleum (1559) out of white sandstone in the Saint-Anthony vault within the Saint Martin's day church is that of the Ghiselin family. At its entry a engraved flagstone covers the heart of Auger de Bousbecque (1552 - 1592) one had lost of it its trace then found in 1932.
  • the Town hall of the XiXe century is enouré of a garden of 6.000 m ² the sheltered residence a large industrialist, the city in taken possession in 1970.
  • the old town hall rebuilt in 1926.
  • the vault Our lady of the delivery.

Personalities related to the commune

Auger de Bousbecque (1522-1592): ambassador of the emperor of the Saint Worsens at Soliman the Magnificent (1554-1562), then secretary of Elisabeth of Austria (1554-1592) at the time of his marriage with the king of France (1570) Charles IX.

See too

External bonds

  • Bousbecque

  • Lille Metropolis - Urban community of Lille
  • local History and genealogy
  • Bousbecque on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Bousbecque on the site of INSEE
  • Bousbecque on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Bousbecque on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Bousbecque on Mapquest
  • Handball Club Bousbecque Wervicq-South Valley of Lily

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