Carvin
Carvin (of Caer-Wind , “town of markets”, Germanic word of origin, formerly Carvin-in Carembault ) is a common French, located in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
Its inhabitants is called Carvinois.
Weapons of the city
The weapons carvinoises are made up of the ecu and its ornament, which, joined together, form the blazon:
The ecu carvinois, “of of the same chief and seven azure gold besants”, also represents the weapons of the family of Melun, whose stronghold was the Earth of Épinoy a long time.
The ornament of the ecu has, him, a history which was forged mainly at the 16th century:
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at the 16th century, Épinoy is a seigniory attached to the Empire (German) by the bonds feodo-vassalic;
- in 1541, Hugues, wire of François of Melun (lord of Épinoy), sees his ground raised with the row of imperial principality by the emperor Charles Quint. Hugues is then made Chevalier of the Golden Fleece, and, by special privilege, receives the right “to lay down his weapons under a tent”.
With final, the ecu “of of the same chief and seven azure gold besants” is thus “sheltered under a coat of crimson doubled of hermine, embroidered and fringed of gold, surmounted princely crown. ”
The Military Cross 1914-1918 present under the blazon was obtained by Carvin on September 28th, 1920 for “mention in dispatches during the countryside of 1914-18 against Germany and its allies”.
Geography
Carvin is in the middle of a geographical triangle delimited by the towns of Douai, Lille and Lens.
The city is located at the end is department of the Pas-de-Calais and is frontier several communes of the department of North (Camphin-in-Carembault, Annœullin, Bauvin, Provin).
The old delimitation places the city on a territory at horse on the Flanders and the Artois: Carembault. It was integrated formerly in a space including/understanding the communes of Camphin, Seclin, Phalempin, Mons-in-Pévèle…
Located on the road axes of the highway A1 and the trunk roads (Trunk road 25 and Trunk road 17).
History
Épinoy is the fatherland of holy Druon (1118-1189), canonized at the 17th century. The name Carvin is mentioned for the first time about its time.Carvin, essentially, was formed starting from two communities: that of Épinoy where an important castle was, chief town of a seigniory raised in principality in 1541; that of Carvin where the markets rose, administrative center of the seigniory. The latter belonged to the family of Antoing then to the Melun and the Rohan-Soubise.
The history of this commercial borough, on the road between Arras, Lille and Turned, was marked by the mining, was started in the middle of the 19th century and completed in 1975. It will modify in particular the geography of the city, giving birth to the district from pit 4, in the east. The principal concessionary company of the exploitation of the local basement even had its seat with Carvin, while the companies close to the mines of Ostricourt and Courrières had been seen conceding the exploitation of the remainder of the basement of the commune. With the nationalization, the mining pits and installations will be gathered within the group of Oignies.
During the First World War, Carvin was in occupied area. Located at the back of the face of Artois, it was a support and garrison town for the German effort of war. The mines left there very weakened.
In May 1940, all the sector whose Carvin constitutes to it city-center is the theater of a battle of delayed-action which makes it possible large French and English troops to gain the pocket of Dunkirk. As soon as the allies had been concealed, the troops of Wehrmacht were devoted to wild reprisals on the populations of the mining cities of pit 4.
In 1947, Carvin loses nearly a third of its territory with the separation of the commune of Libercourt, where the station the SNCF is.
The city lost the major part of its industry in the years 1970 to 1990: mines and the mechanical engineering (CMC, Poclain group). It is today a commune of services and residential, near to the regional capital, Lille.
Administration
Demography
Economy
Mine S: Carboniferous of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Places and monuments
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In 1999, Carvin also accommodated the first World cup of Yoseikan Budo, Martial art of origin Japan ease. Carvinoise was crowned besides world champion on this occasion: Estelle Alfort.
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the city accommodated in July 2004 the European Convention of juggling (EJC) and accommodates each year the regional convention of juggling.
Church Saint Martin's day (Melun turn)
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Its principal inheritance is its church Saint Martin's day and its turn set up in 1702 (classified historic building), of which the Style late baroque, of Spanish inspiration, is rare in the area and completely single in the Arrondissement of Lens. Tomb stones of the Robespierre family members are inserted in the pavement of the church.
Magistrates' court
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the Magistrates' court is a survival of the justice which operated the alderman S in Épinoy. Installed in a building of the 17th century, it is qualified on the whole of the Communauté of agglomeration of Hénin-Carvin. October 12th, 2007, the Minister of Justice Rachida Dati announced its suppression within the framework of the reform of the legal chart, with the profit of that of Lens.
Historic buildings
Saint Martin's day church: classification by decree of June 13rd, 1921
Information resulting from: Databases Ministry for the culture
Personalities related to the commune
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Holy Druon, hermit of the 12th century, would have been born in Épinoy.
- Maximilien de Robespierre, third of the name, politician and French revolutionist born in Arras is resulting from a line whose ancestors followed one another the stations of administrative persons in charge of the Principality and Chatellenie d' Epinoy whose seat was the borough of Carvin. His/her Maximilien grandfather had been born in Carvin which it left to found the branch arrageoise of the family. The three generations of lawyers who will follow one another Arras, being transmitted of wire father the first name of Maximilien will continue to maintain the bonds with the members of their family of Carvin whose tomb stones are inserted today still in the pavement of the church of Carvin.
- Cyprien Quinet, first appointed communist of the Pas-de-Calais, is originating in Carvin where he was elected before being made prisoner and deportee.
- Auguste Havez, trade unionist, politician and resistant, in Carvin in 1897 was born.
- Jacques Secrétin, born in Carvin in 1949, is one of largest the pongists French.
See too
- Common of the Pas-de-Calais
External bonds
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Town hall of Carvin
- the Community of agglomeration of Hénin-Carvin
- I.L.T.V., local television channel
- Carvin on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Carvin on the site of INSEE
- Carvin on the site of Quid
- Localization of Carvin on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Carvin on Mapquest
- Rugby Ovalie Club of Carvin
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