Boussu
Boussu (in borain, alternative of the Picardy , and in Walloon Boussu-dlé-Mount ) is a common French-speaking of Belgium located in Walloon region in the Province of Hainaut, with ten kilometers of Mons and French border . Boussu is located in the Borinage, area famous in the past for its field.
Villages of the commune
The entity of Boussu includes/understands the old communes of Boussu (7300) and Hornu (7301).
Etymology
Just as its neighbor, Hornu, this commune is extremely old and the history of Sainte Waudru mentions there the existence of a church at the 12th century. In the acts of the past, Boussu conquers extremely various titles: Buxutum, Bussuth, Bussut, Bossut, Boussut. However the etymology is extremely simple. That means “Latin the abundant boxwood place” ( buxus : meaning boxwood or buxutum meaning coppice of boxwood .
History
The commune is already occupied with prehistory with the Lieu-dit Saint-Anthony (Boussu-Wood) and in Boussu-Center.In 768, under Charlemagne, Boussu bears the name of borough, which seems to prove the existence of a castle.
The history of this village reveals more than one important fact.
At the 13th century, there was in Boussu a strong castle, which had one hour of glory… warlike, with XV E and 16th centuries.
The children of Regnier to the Length-Collar, after the Battle of Fibulas in 974, strengthened themselves in the castle of Boussu. Most of this village formed a concerning important stronghold county of Namur and which belonged successively to the families of Boussu, Ramignies, Fountain, Hennin-Liétard and Caraman. The lords had as a currency: I there seray Bossut .
In 1478, the castle of Boussu is taken by Louis XI.
In 1510, Maximilien of Austria and Charles, prince d' Espagne, granted a frank market, Tuesday of each week, with the borough of Boussu.
In 1539: beginning of the construction of a castle Rebirth under the direction of Jacques Of Brœucq.
In 1555, the emperor Charles Quint set up this seigniory in county, in favor of Jean de Hennin, lord of Boussu, gentleman of his room.
In 1655, the king Louis XIV takes the castle of Boussu and besieges the town of Saint-Ghislain accompanied by the Mazarin Cardinal.
The April 28th 1792, the Austrian general of Beaulieu surprised the French, camped with Boussu, and put them in rout.
The November 4th 1792 takes place the combat of Boussu between the Austrian army and the French Army (First coalition).
At the 19th century: The count Caraman made build a manor house on the ruins of the châtelet of entry of the castle of Of Brœucq.
In 1914 - 1918, German occupation.
In 1940 - 1945, German occupation.
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Destruction of the railway bridge of Herbières:
In 1960: closing of the last 3 Boussu-Wood coal mining.
Remarkable monuments and sites
- On the territory of Boussu itself we can discover:
the funerary vault of the lords of Boussu being next to the Saint-Gery church of Boussu-Center whose first stones were posed at the 12th century and who was altered at the beginning of the 16th century. This one contains a crypt and various mausoleums of Renaissance style constituting one of most beautiful the whole of this style in Belgium. One will particularly notice the mausoleum of Jean de Hennin-Liétard, first count de Boussu and the Gisant mannerist out of alabaster allotted to the large Mons sculptor Jacques Of Brœucq (1505? - 1584) as well as the Transi out of white stone with Avesnes representing an emaciated corpse corroded by the worms, called in the area “the man with let us grind”, or the various low-reliefs of Tournaisienne School.
the splendid site of the park of the castle of Boussu containing a remarkable flora and a fauna but as the very interesting ruins of largest and sumptuous Renaissance castle builds in the Netherlands, as the commune and dynamics ASBL “Gy Seray Boussu” intend to arrange in showroom in the future.
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On the territory of the communes amalgamated with Boussu, we can see and visit:
the site known as of the Large-Hornu with Hornu, gathering the industrial vestiges of a mine and mining cottage S (one of the first in Europe). On this site is also established the museum of the Contemporary arts of the French Communauté, in summary the MAC' S. This museum is famous for its exposures and its architecture which is melted completely in the vestiges of the site of Large-Hornu.
the amphitheater Hadès , another architectural curiosity which is built just near the Large-Hornu . It is about a gathering complex of the apartments, of the studios, as well as offices. The characteristic of this construction is that it is built with the manner of a Colisée. What makes it quite as attractive from the tourist point of view as from the point of view of comfort for those which live there.
Economy
With regard to the socio-economic climate, the Borinage is an area relatively disaster victim. Indeed, unemployment prevails there in an endemic way. Coal-mining receives besides subsidies of the European Union within the framework of Objective 1. There are almost only SME established on the commune of Boussu.
Personalities born in Boussu
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Géo Libbrecht, poet of Picardy language;
- Marcel Moreau, writer of French language.
See too
External bonds
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Site of the municipal authorities
- Site of the Museum of the Contemporary arts (MAC' S)
- Site of Large-Hornu the
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