History of Hellemmes
This article recalls the history of Hellemmes, an old commune of the Northern of the France, associated with Lille in April 1977. It was called formerly Hellemmes lez Lille.
Geography
Hellemmes is located at the east of Lille and has a surface of 334 Hectare S.
It lies between the communes of Lille, Ronchin, Lezennes, Villeneuve-with Ascq (Annapes and Flers-lez-Lille) and Mons-in-Barœul.
Administratively, it belonged to the châtellenie of Lille. The altitude of the city varies from 26,50 to 30 meters.
The current Master-David
This brook passed with limit of commune (with Guinguette where it is noted that the layout is not rectilinear), Jacquard streets, Etienne-Dolet. According to a report of the 17th century, the ditch would have been established to divert wild water which went down from Ronchin and Faches and flowed in the ditches of Lille, making them overflow. By the ditch which went from the door of the Patients (Paris carries) until close to the farm of Quiquempois (Flers), this water flowed in the marshes of Flers. In 1571, a market was concluded between the town of Lille and the churls owners from the grounds with through which the ditch was to pass. The total of the acquired grounds rose with 1 bonnier 15 hundred and 7 rods 9 feet for the sum of 2004 pounds, plus the allowances for the sowing . In 1572, the churls of Flers, finding that water caused damage, required of the magistrate of Lille to continue it until the Mark. Some grounds were acquired, but without continuation. A new request was presented to the magistrate in 1629. An final agreement was signed the July 26th 1630 between the baillif d' Annapes and the magistrate. Boring and maintenance were cause of many conflicts between 1571 and 1779. At the beginning of 1738, an investigation was opened by the magistrate of Lille to study the utility of this ditch, which, seems it, was confirmed. It is only in 1779 that the magistrate decided to sell the grounds, without for that deciding removal of the current. A few years later, the ditch did not go any more but from Guinguette to Hellemmes until little close the lake Midsummer's Day to Villeneuve-in Ascq. Now, there does not exist any more.A second ditch, Becquerel, came from Mons-in-Barœul by the current street of Becquerel, passed street Jacquart and street Etienne-Dolet. It thus appears that, at least partly, these currents took the same way; sometimes, their names are confused.
A small bridge spanning a filament of water was in the park of the town hall. It is wrongly that the public rumor sees a brook there: it was about the rain water of the adjacent building industrial which served the pleasure garden
Etymology
Hellemmes would be the form Romance E given to Germanic the Helhem , composed of the Teuton hem = remains, house, and of hel (heil) for heilag, sacer, sanctus. By extension, this suffix means hearth, remains of the chief, the house and, therefore, the whole village. Thus, according to E. To handle, “Heil-Hem” would mean holy residence, name which could be given in the first times by the stay of some piles coenobite.The suffix hem seems to be imported by the Francs saliens and heim by the Francs ripuaires (see the concentration of these words - and their derivatives - in the zones of occupation of these people). Both having been used by one with the other tribe, it becomes difficult to allot etymological limits some.
The extension given to the significance of hem makes it possible to think that our area, populated men proud and independent at least an integration of the Christianisme in their religious Pantheon would have accepted, which could have given in the name of the borough in gestation the value of “holy village” or “village believing”, honor granted by the evangelists.
Christianity appeared rather early, imported by the traders, the evangelists, the Roman troops…
Piat, accompanied by some young priests, was sent by the pope towards Tournai to carry the fine words in Gaulle Belgium. They cross the Nervie, the Ménapie and the Atrébatie, the first two areas undergoing more than not accepting the Roman occupation.
Irenee, a convert, made gift with Piat saint of a house in Tournai to be used as place of worship, place where was set up later the Notre-Dame cathedral.
A descendant of Irenee, Éleuthère, succeeding Denis saint, was made priest, and created évêché of Turned of which he was the bishop during forty-five years (until its death which has occurred the June 30th 531).
The notes relative to Hellemmes in the dictionary of Pietresson de Saint-Aubin indicate:
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Châtellenie of Lille: Ca 1469
- Subdelegation of Lille: 1787
- Strongholds
- Ennequin - Leuridan: Mélantois 116,117
- Hellemmes - Leuridan: Mélantois 116,117
- Huméryse - Leuridan: Mélantois, 116
- Small Wasquehal, stronghold with Fives, Hellemmes, Flers and surroundings, Leuridan, Mélantois 68
- C-Ws communication for Hellemmes:
- Helesmes, 1096, Statistical tournament of Anchin archaeological 1867, Carp II, 14
- Helemes, 1174 (cartulaire of Loos) Statistical archéo. 1857
- Helemmes, Ca 1372
- Hellesmes, XIVe Longnon Pouilles of the province of Rheims, 422
- Helemmes 1149 - 1165 - 1787
- Hellemmes-Lille, decree of April 8th, 1857, collection 1875, p 144
- Hellemmes, 1804, Dieudonné 111,304
- Helames, Ca 1372 (Longnon, Pouilles 253 (perhaps Hélesmes)
- Carrying the name:
- Helemmes, Gossuin of (perhaps Elesmes) 1238 24:8 /105
- Helemmes, Anastasius of 1149 - 1166 27. 16/206
- Hellemmes, Ca 1439, declaration of the châtellenie of Lille, B 105 (17)
- Variations and localities:
- Quoted Boldoduc
- Vault of Locq
- Mill Saint-Saver
- Oratorical Guinguette
- Small Lannoy
- Workshops
- Brickyard
- Foundry
- Spinning mills
- Mount of Ground
Atrébatie or Ménapie?
The border between Ménapie and Atrébatie was the subject of controversies a long time, the tradition wanting that the old ones évêchés took again the limits of the civitas in which Jules César saw entities more political than administrative. These districts were used as framework with the lifting of the taxes, variables according to obedience and the fidelity of the overcome people.
The delimitation of the two territories currently generally allowed is that provided by Pierre Léman (former director of historical antiquities). It passed by Houplines, Armentières, Lome, Lambersart, the Madeleine, Fives, Bouvines, Mortagne.
Fives (Fivis, Finished) is regarded as having been used as terminal border. Would this border have, by the street Roger-Salengro, divided Hellemmes in two?
During the construction of the school of the apprentices (on behalf of the SNCF), the foundations of a Gallo-Roman villa were put at the day.
The name of the ground
Nothing comes in support of the legend according to which Hellemmes would have been founded by certain Helemus. Indeed, it is the ground which gave its name to the lord and not the reverse. The adoption of the name of a more prestigious ground was current. Some, rather preferred even the mention of a avouery than their title.The fixing of the blazons dates from the 13th century. The 16th century should however be waited so that Hellemmes has to it his (Sebastien Dore, heraldist, held up to date the armorial of France). Louis XIV needed resources. The “Blason stroke” gave place to taxes of recording: communes, trades, abbeys, etc were required to have one. It is known as of squirrel fur, is made up small pipe fittings of pinnacles of azure and of money placed head-digs.
Bernard Derosier, mayor, changed these armorial bearings in order to modernize them (it would be then more judicious to speak about logo). Fifteen blue triangles posed four, four, four, three, were to symbolize the Industrie and the Métallurgie and a thought for the CITTN, hive of companies which he had wanted to see to be established on Hellemmes. The name Hellemmes and the ranking “common partner to Lille” were registered in black.
In 2001, Gilles Pargneaux, successor of Bernard Derosier, wants to also put its “leg” at the communal symbol. The triangles are not any more but six, larger, five of blue color, one slightly shifted in order to give an idea of movement, of yellow color. This new logo was presented to the inhabitants the January 6th 2002 at the time of the traditional ceremony of the wishes.
Hellemmes before the written documents
The archaeological discoveries on the territory of the commune are rare.
In 1963, during the construction of the workshop of the apprentices the SNCF, street Danton, of the interpreted structures as dating from the Gallo-Roman time were put at the day:
- a hardened clay floor;
- of the foundations.
Rue du Blason, a “Roman” currency at summer found, but the inventor always refused to entrust it for a more precise identification.
A pottery kiln (the dump was not excavated) located at Hellemmes, and not at Lézennes, dated from the beginning of Tène.
The survey carried out with the site of old the Fénelon appendix will be the subject of a development in the chapter devoted to the Saint-Denis church.
It should be noticed that a certain number of sites would have deserved to be exploited, for example:
- the stone alignment limestones (only one bed) vis-a-vis Tollenaere bakery, put at the day during additional work of the subway;
- a wall, probably of an old farm, angle of the street Delemazure and path of the Priest during installation in carpark;
- site of another farm to the angle of the streets Marceau and Roger-Salengro (vis-a-vis the music school).
- etc
Strongholds and supposed
All the feudal system was based on a report/ratio of Suzerain be to ité Vassal, at the origin, most extremely providing its protection to weakest. The property became only one provision of goods. To the death of the holder, the land one was given to the suzerain, who then transferred it to the heirs to late with the help of a right known as of mortmain, which did not prohibit a confiscation. The use of the goods was subjected, in addition to the various taxes, with a royalty either as men-at-arms for the Noble S, or in kind (then out of money) for the Roturier S. Encore was necessary it to make the difference between the noble strongholds and those fallen in commoner's condition.Depending on the monastery on Inlays at the 12th century, Helemes appears in 1174 in the cartulaire of Loos. The first mention of the parish appears in an act of 1276 by which Al Michel sells to Marguerite, countess of Flanders and Hainaut “ung place and manor… the ground of latre of hellemes and the hovel dou prestrage of the paroce of hellemes were taken and esclucies of the known as ground which place grounds revenues and the dism above known as Li say mikiel held in stronghold of hellin lords de Chisoing”.
Hellin de Cysoing, lord of Cysoing, Bourghelles, etc, ber of Flanders and solicitor of the abbey of the place, wire of Arnould and Mathilde of Lille, was married with Alix de Diest, girl of Arnould and Isabeau de Mortagne. It went down from Etienne de Landas who, having married the heiress of Cysoing towards 1111, changed his name for that of Cysoing.
The family of Landas is known since the 10th century. According to a certain legend, from Landas would go down from the marquis d' Este (or Aste), in Italy. Very powerful family, her members had the step (priority) on the count de Wavrin. Weapons of Landas: fixed party of money and mouths of ten parts.
Stronghold of Hellesmes
Stronghold vicomtier held of the seigniory of Roubaix with 10 books of relief with died of its consistent owner in 12 bonniers and ground half with ploughing located on the road of Lille to Tournai, in revenues on heritages extending on Hellemmes, Lille, the Madeleine and in two homages.
House of Hellemmes
In a cartulaire of the abbey of Bourbourg of 1130, we find trace of Rogierus de Helemis, without indication of origin.A family D' Hellemmes is not attested of it in an act of 1136 by which Thierry, count de Flandre, confirms various donations made with the profit of the church Saint Martin's day de Fives. Are named:
- Robert de Helesmes: a ground with a rasière
- Eva de Helesmes: a meadow with use of water
- Anastase of Helesmes: part of pre
In 1290, is quoted Hellin d' Hellesmes, sub-deacon, owner of the emolument of the Saint-Pierre church of Lille. The June 14th of the same year, the pope Nicolas IV load the archdeacon of Hainaut (of Liege), main Jean of Lille, and the chancellor of the church of Turned to make receive as main canon Hellin de Hyelesmes in spite of the prevention ex defectu natalium prohibiting this chapter from admitting the bastard ones with the canonicat.
The recipient had lived a long time at the court of Rome, which had been worth various favors to him of which the above mentioned exemption. An act of the June 13rd 1297 presents it as belonging to the canons who supported the count of Flanders against king Philippe the Beautiful one. With its death, which has occurred the September 5th 1297 or 1298, its house canonic was sold, the price entering the acquisition of the dîme of Sequedin.
The fact of being quoted in the necrologist and the obituaire presents it like a distinguished person.
Symon de Hellemmes appears like witness as a man of stronghold in an act of the September 8th 1324 by which Walerans de Lussembourch makes gift of a wood to its rider.
About the 14th century, plus any family member D' Hellemmes is not mentioned like holding a stronghold in the commune. We however find carriers of the name with Tournai, without any proof of family ties, with Jehan de Hielemmes (or of Helames) deceased before 1316, married before 1305 with Maroie Copette, and whose descent is known during several generations. Thus, Hellemmes appears, in 1429, with Jean Boinenffant, agent of the city of Turned, with a tournament taking place in Lille.
Artus house
Artus carried of gold to three crowns of mouth posed out of stake. Jacques Artus, sons of Jean, die the December 6th 1382 and are buried in Lille Saint-Etienne. He had married Agnès Rufin, lady of Espaing, died the January 4th 1372, also buried in Lille Saint-Etienne. The enumeration of the stronghold of Espaing with Wambrechies, held of the Room of Lille is served the February 12th 1373.Jean Artus, wire of the precedents, husband of Jeanne Frémault, raise his middle-class in 1356. It is perhaps the same character who is king of the Virginal in 1380.
Robert Artus, died before 1405, wire of the precedents, raises his middle-class of Lille in 1375. He is anobli by letters given to Paris in February 1391 with the help of finance taxed with 40 francs with gold. He is quoted like Gardorphène of the town of Lille in 1384 (controls of the houses having orphans as boarders). He also appears as a judge shareholder of Abiette of Lille in Hellemmes. A last act of acquisition of ground the November 4th 1394 is covered with its seal in charge of one ecu carrying three crowns one on the other accompanied by a fermail to the dextral canton; one can read there the legend “+scel. robiert. artut. ”. Of his marriage with Willemine Thieulaine (which will marry in second weddings with Gilles, lord of Tourmignies), it had a son and a girl who follow.
Jean Artus, rider, lord of Espaing, raise the middle-class of Lille the February 20th 1406. At the time of the enumeration of the seigniory of Roubaix been used the January 18th 1458 per Pierre as Roubaix, the stronghold of Hellemmes is declared like having belonged to Jean d' Espaing (probably Jean Artus, grandfather of Jean) and not to be raised at the time of the known as report/ratio. It is undoubtedly the same character who is king of the Virginal in 1435. Most of its fortune was lost with the service of the king Charles VII. Its marriage with Marie Wettin will remain without posterity.
Catherine Artus, heiress of her brother, marries in first weddings Jean Cottrel, lord of Esplechin and wine waiter of king de France, in second weddings, Jean de Marquillies, lord of Herbamez.
House of Noyelles
Adrien de Noyelles, wire of Philippe and Isabeau of Luxembourg, collects in 1561 the seigniories of Cross, Flers, Hellemmes, etc in 1665 those of Becquerie and the Vine with Linselles. He was married with Francoise of Lille (a junior by the Fibula-Lille house, lords of the manor of Lille) carrying mouth with the chief of gold. Above the gate of the church of Flers a canopy with the following districts was:- Noyelles: Mailly
- Luxembourg: Cross
- Lille: Ghistelles
- Line: Hallewyn
With the inscription “Adrien de Noyelles, Knight, lord of Cross and Flers and Francoise lady of Lille, espeuse, gave for the honor…” Adrien II of Noyelles, wire of the precedents, knight, lord of Cross, Flers, Lisbourg, Hellemmes, governor and sovereign-baillif of the castle of the Mound with Wood, etc, had married Anne of Ghent-Unpleasant (which carried of sand to the chief of money). He dies the September 12th 1615 by transmitting his seigniories to his oldest son who follows.
Jacques de Noyelles, lord of Cross, Flers, Hellemmes, etc, Niello Viscount obtain in 1617 archdukes Albert and Isabelle the erection of his ground of Cross in county with annexation of the seigniory of Flers. It is taken and homage for its county and 1620, serves of it the report/ratio and enumeration three years later. In 1627, it obtains the erection of its ground of Lisbourg in marquisat. It fulfills the functions of ordinary police chief to the renewal of the magistrates of the county of Flanders, and chief of finances in the Netherlands. He dies the December 9th 1637, married to Anne de Claerhout, baroness of Maldeghem, without posterity.
Francoise de Noyelles, sister of the precedent, lady-in-waiting of the infante Isabelle, were plain with her relative with the fourth degree Florent de Noyelles, knight, count de Maille, baron de Rossignol, gentleman of the room of the archduke Albert, captain of a company of lances, governor of Arras then large baillif of Hainaut. They had as a successor their oldest son.
House of Noyelles-in Noyelles
Eugene de Noyelles, Niello Viscount, count de Croix, marquis de Lisbourg, lord of Flers married Marie de Berghe-Saint-Winoc. The county of Cross is sold in 1677, the seigniory of Flers, detached, as for it, is sold to the lord de Kessel, to lord of Gavelins.
House of Broide
Henri de Broide, wire of Pierre (rider, lord of Wallutle), rider, lord of Gondecourt, Beauffremez, Escobecques, the Ringing (in Flers), Hellemmes, middle-class man of Lille by purchase of the October 20th 1653, adviser of the town of Lille in 1694 is made knight by letters given to Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer in April 1670. He dies in Lille before 1733, having married in Lille Saint-Etienne Marie Jeanne Fauconnier, baptized in Lille Saint-Etienne the October 28th 1638, girl of Guillaume and Catherine Deconninck, buried in the church of Gondecourt the September 9th 1707. The girl of Henri de Broide, Florence, heiress of Gondecourt, marries Jerome Alexis Robert lord of Choisys. Their son Robert, baron de Saint-Symphorien, lord of Gondecourt, was lacking at the assembly of the nobility called to elect deputies with the General states in 1789.
House of Haffrenghes
A branch of the family of Haffrenghes, known to Saint-Omer as of the 16th century, came to be fixed at Lille where it acquired a certain notoriety.Jacques Adrien of Haffrenghes, born with Saint-Omer October 2nd 1655, lord of Bricque (in Mentque-Nortbécourt), middle-class man of Lille by purchase of July 1st 1678, bachelor of law, subdelegated of intendant of Flanders by letters of provision received December 3rd 1704 for sum of 12.000 books (during the removal of the office, by edict given to Versailles in October 1713, Jacques Adrien d' Haffrenghes was to receive “13.434 books 15 grounds plus the interests with the sum of money twenty in proportion to what will be deub and echeu”), baillif of Roubaix of 1679 with 1688, adviser of the king, first boarder of the states of Lille east anobli by letters given in December 1705. He dies in Lille Holy-Catherine the February 25th 1723, having married Marie Catherine Cambier, born in 1636, died the July 17th 1716 (buried with the abbey of Bowsprit-on-the-Lily) from where:
- Michel Pelagie (? - 1723)
- Marguerite Hippolyte (1681-1742)
- Marie Therese (1684-dead in low age)
- Cecile Isabelle (1686-1748)
- Marie Joseph (1687-?)
- Jacques Maximilien Bernard (1688-?)
- Jacques Antoine Hippolyte (1690-1761)
- Marie Therese (1691-1773)
- Charles Maximilien Joseph, which follows
- Pierre Justin Placide (1694-1740)
Charles Maximilien Joseph d' Haffrenghes, baptized in Lille Holy-Catherine the April 19th 1693, rider, middle-class man of Lille by relief the July 16th 1732, adviser of the king, subdelegated of the intendant of Flanders, adviser boarder of the retributive high baillifs of the châtellenie of Lille becomes lord of Hellemmes by purchase. He dies the April 13rd 1763, buried in the vault of the Virgin in Lille the Madeleine. He had married by last contract the September 12th 1731 with Comines Suzanne Therese Joseph Becuwe, born in 1711, died the March 28th 1762 (buried in Lille the Madeleine), lady of the Manors and Tametz, from where:
- Filipino Isabelle Suzanne (1733-1789)
- Charles Hippolyte Marie, which follows
- Catherine Lutgarde (1736-1737)
- Thomas Henri Joseph (1737-1741)
- Henriette Catherine Joseph (1740-1742)
- Louise Amélie Joseph (1745-1762)
Charles Hippolyte Marie d' Haffrenghes, baptized in Lille the Madeleine the June 19th 1735, rider, middle-class man of Lille by relief the December 14th 1759, subdelegated of the intendant of Flanders, marguillier of the parish of the Madeleine in Lille, named directing of the True Mount of Piety in Lille the May 29th 1773, registered with the role of noble by ordinance of the November 10th 1763, already lord of Hellemmes, buys what remains of this stronghold. He dies in Lille the Madeleine the September 24th 1787, having married in Lille the Madeleine the January 28th 1759 Marie Catherine Florence van Zeller, baptized in Lille the Madeleine the October 27th 1728, girl of Theodore (rider, lord of Oostove) and of Marie Catherine Cécile Wacrenier. Of this marriage, are resulting:
- a son (1760-1760)
- Marie Catherine Charlotte (1761-1769)
- Maximilien Philippe Augustin, which follows
- François Joseph Marie (1764-?), rider, lord of Magny
- Marie Jean Baptist Hippolyte (1766-1807), rider, lord of Canteraine
- Thomas Albert Marie (1768-1789), rider, lord of Tametz
- Marie Anne Chrysoline Suzanne (1771-1775)
Maximilien Philippe Auguste d' Haffrenghes, baptized in Lille the Madeleine the October 12th 1762, rider, lord of Hellemmes. It proves reliable of nobility at the same time the July 13rd 1785 as his three brothers. It takes share in 1789 with the election of the deputies to the General states as member of the nobility of the bailliage of Lille (the list indicates: Marie Catherine Laurence Vauzelle - for van Zeller -, the lord of Hellemmes, his son) as a police chief. For this reason, it takes share with the drafting of the registers of grievances. About March 1787, it is withdrawn with Ypres to devote itself to the Dessin and the Dramatic art.
Stronghold of Humeryse
Stronghold vicomtier held of the county of Avelin with hundred pennies of consistent relief in a flégard on the road of Turned to the church of Hellemmes (left the current street Faidherbe) and in revenues.
House of Cambers
- Jacques of Cambers, middle-class man of Lille.
- Jean of Cambers, wire of the precedent, quoted in 1621.
House of Hangouart
Michel Hangouart, born with Aubers in 1621, wire of Barthélémi and Marie de Pressy, rider, lord of Ransart, Plouich, Malfiance, Low Aubers (old stronghold of Piettre with Esquelbecq), the Mounds, the Scathing attacks, Pommereault, Antreuil, lord of Elcourt following the death of his older brother, middle-class man of Lille by relief the December 30th 1641, large bailly of the states of Lille, Douai, Orchies, is created knight by letters given to Madrid the May 10th 1640. He buys the load of baillif of Lille in 1640, becomes appointed ordinary of the States of Lille, buys the seigniory of Avelin in 1660, then that of the Madeleine. He attaches his title of baron to the ground of Avelin set up in county. In 1639, it buys a house vis-a-vis the hospital Saint-Saver to install Collectines there. Founder of the convent of Collectines in Lille, it will be buried there with his death which has occurred the March 19th 1690 (in 1699 according to Theodore Leuridan in the feudal statistics of the department of North, châtellenie of Lille, Lille 1873). Of its union celebrated in 1642 with Anne Marie de Preudhomme d' Haillies, baptized in Lille Holy-Catherine the April 3rd 1612, died the January 29th 1682 (buried with the convent of Collectines), girl of Jean Baptist and Catherine of Cross, viscountess de Nieuport, result:- Catherine Isabelle Robertine (1643-1646)
- Marguerite Andree (1646-1646)
- Barthélémi Francois, which follows
- Michel Albert (1648-1649)
- Marie Anne Antoinette Joseph (1651-1723)
- Charles François Philippe Henri Ferdinand (1655-1656)
Barthélémi François Joseph Hangouart, baptized in Lille the Madeleine the September 30th 1646, died the September 30th 1710 (buried with the convent of Collectines), knight, baron d' Avelin, lord of Plouich, Seclin, Marcq, Antreuil, the Madeleine, Capelle, middle-class man of Lille by relief the December 30th 1670 is created knight by letters given to Versailles in July 1696. Large baillif of the châtellenie of Lille, it is created marquis d' Avelin (with his son Antoine Felix) in June 1703. The May 14th 1709, it lends oath of obedience to the Dutch entered Lille under the command of prince Eugene d' Holstein-Beck with the three other high dispensers of justice, of which Michel Hangouart, count de Ligny. Of its marriage celebrated the November 19th 1670 in Lille Saint-Etienne with Isabelle Francoise of Vichte, baptized in 1652, died the November 18th 1707, lady of Baudimont, the Mound (in Ascq), girl of Ignace and Antoinette of Vichte result:
- Antoine (1671-?)
- Marie Antoinette Marguerite Joseph (1673-1749)
- Philippe François Joseph (1675-death in low age)
- Anne Francoise Isabelle (1677-1698)
- Ignace François Joseph (1679-?)
- Charles Philippe, which follows
- Antoine Felix (1682-1759), marquis d' Avelin, dead unmarried in Lille Saint-Andrew (buried with the convent of Collectines)
Charles Philippe d' Hangouart, baptized in Lille Saint-Etienne on July 1st 1680, knight, count de Hangouart, marquis and count d' Avelin, lord of Seclin, Marcq, the Madeleine, Antreuil, Attiches, the Town hall (in Gondecourt, held in justice vicomtière of the holy chapter Piat de Seclin), middle-class man of Lille by relief the May 27th 1702, dies in Lille the Madeleine the November 19th 1749. Of its celebrated union the March 2nd 1701 with Charlotte Marie Florence Snoy, baroness of Oppuers, baptized in Malines Midsummer's Day the November 26th 1683, died in Lille the Madeleine the March 14th 1726, girl of Jean Jacques Antoine and Marie Walburge de Steenhuys, result:
- a son (1702-1702)
- Marie Francoise Walburge (1704-1756)
- Charles François Joseph (1705-1705)
- Antoine François Joseph, which follows
- Guillaume Charles Joseph (1708-1708)
- Marie Anne Alexandrine (1714-?)
Antoine François Joseph d' Hangouart, baptized with Saint-Rombault the August 21st 1706, marquis d' Avelin, baron d' Oppuers, lord of Seclin, Marcq, Attiches, the Madeleine, Antreuil, then of Low Aubers and Pommereault (by succession of his/her uncle Antoine Felix), mayor of Gondecourt, middle-class man of Lille by relief the February 11th 1738, dies in Lille the Madeleine the December 21st 1775. Of its marriage celebrated in Ghent Saint Nicolas's Day the April 13rd 1737 with Marie Anne Francoise de Preud' man of Haillies born in Poucques the December 31st 1711, died in Lille the Madeleine on April 1st 1776, girl of Marc Antoine Albert and Antoinette Alexandrine d' Ongnies, result:
- Alexandrine Charlotte Marie (1739-1827)
- Marie Albertine Felix Colette (1740-1786)
- Louis Joseph Hubert Colette (1741-1767)
- a girl (1742-1742)
- Marie Therese Antoinette (1744-1795)
- François Augustin Anne Hubert Colette, which follows
- Charles Maximilien Jean Ghislain Barthélémi Colette (1750-?)
- Joséphine Ferdinande Leon Colette (1754-?)
- Louis Marie Antoinette Joseph (1755 - year X)
François Anne Augustin Hubert Colette, marquis d' Hangouart baptized in Ghent Saint-Jacob the April 11th 1747, last count d' Avelin, receipt knight of Malta of minority the December 3rd 1749, convened at the assemblies of noble of Flanders by ordinance of the November 12th 1779 dies in Avelin the October 8th 1825. Of its marriage celebrated with Tournai Saint Nicolas's Day of the castle the June 14th 1773 with Marie Adrienne Alardine Francoise de Franeau d' Hyon, born in Quesnoy in 1746, girl of Jacques Adrien Joseph and of Marie Joseph Placide Camille van der Burch a son still-born child in Lille Saint-Maurice is resulting the December 17th 1777. François d' Hangouart makes build the hotel of Avelin to Lille (old housing of the vice-chancellor of academy). Living the Revolution badly, it leaves for the Belgium in 1790; when it returns, it is catalogued like suspect. The August 27th 1792, Sta, prosecutor syndic of the district of Lille, is delighted to have discovered superb pieces of furniture in hiding-places arranged at the time of a searching in the hotel of Avelin. In January 1793, François d' Hangouart manages to take refuge in Germany. With the return of its exile, the August 12th 1802, it is ruined, his/her sister having in vain tried to save its goods. Turned sour, he refuses to admit that a page of the History is turned.
Stronghold of small Wasquehal
Stronghold held of Wasquehal Parish in Wasquehal.A general sight of the lords of the stronghold of Wasquehal Paroisse seems a good base for a study of Small Wasquehal with Hellemmes. Until 1415, Wasquehal Parish and Wasquehal the Mark were with the hands of the same lord. Of 1096 with 1268 existed a noble family of Waskenhal until Jeanne, last rams of Wasquehal, marries Wautier VI, wire of the lord of the manor of Douai. The two strongholds pass from wire father, in Gilles I (1304-1320), then Gilles II (1320-1355), finally in Jean. This last, ruined by the war between the king of France and the count of Flanders loses and his inheritance and its titles of nobility (which will be returned to him towards 1365 by Charles V, king de France).
House of Ghistelles
Wasquehal Parish and Wasquehal the Mark fall to Isabeau de Rode, lady of Ingelmunster and Breucq (the stronghold of Breucq extended on Flers, Fives, Hellemmes and the Madeleine, the paiery of the same name formed part of it. More than three hundred houses, cabarets, hotels composed the paiery at the time of its sale with Jean of Roubaix in 1423). By act of the January 28th 1398, then widow of Jean VI of Ghistelles, it makes gift of “5 taxable quotas of loan” in Houplines with the profit of a certain Jacques Poulle “for several good services and pleasant which made and still will make”. Gerard de Ghistelles, wire of the preceding one, lord of Wasquehal the Mark, Wasquehal Parish of Breucq, dies in Azincourt (1415). He had married Isabelle de Moere. Its sons receive:- Wasquehal the Mark with Jean, lord of Breucq.
- Wasquehal Parish in Guy I, known as the Old man, large baillif de Tenremonde, husband in first weddings of Marguerite de Oudenhove (dead in 1746), in second weddings of Marguerite Of YOUR, heiress of Axelles, of which, of the second marriage:
- Guy, which follows
- Jossine which marries in 1460 Pierre de Bergues-Saint-Winoc.
House of Bergues Saint-Winoc
Catherine de Bergues, girl of the precedents, ram of Wasquehal in 1470, wife Robert de Ranchicourt, lord of Divion, Maisnil, Fournes, Hénin Liétard, Wasquehal Paroisse.Wasquehal Paroisse passes then by succession to the house of Bournon-City, but this family does not manage any more our Small Wasquehal but by far.
Stronghold of Ennequin
Stronghold vicomtier held of the seigniory of Dadizeele with the Madeleine with 10 books of relief, including/understanding 10 bonniers 7 taxable quotas of heritage as well as revenues on 9 bonniers 909 rods and 3 houses in Lille. In the heart of the church of 1517 was a stained glass offered by various family members of Flye, lords of the place.
House of Flye
- Michel of Flye, anobli in 1503.
- Jean of Flye, quoted in 1505, wire of the precedent, anobli, lord of Ennevelin and the Valley, Marie in second weddings with Jeanne Prévost.
- Maximilien of Flye, wire of the precedents, rider, married with Jeanne of Cauchie.
- Mathias of Flye, quoted in 1564, wire of the precedents, lord of Sapignie and Ennequin, Marie with Catherine Dubois, without posterity.
- Mathias of Flye, nephew of the precedent, quoted like lord of Ennevelin and Ennequin in 1570, husband of Anne of Varennes.
Bayart house
Jean Dominique Bayart, rider, lord of Ennequin, baptized in Lille Saint-Etienne the 1561, wire of Bruno and Marguerite Daudenarde (grooms the January 27th 1651), itself girl of Guillaume and Michelle Desfontaines.
House of Flandres
Marie Jeanne de Flandres, rams of Ennequin, girl of Simon and Jeanne Desmazures (itself girl of Charles and Jeanne van Thiennen), baptized in Lille Saint-Etienne the October 19th 1663, died in Lille Saint-Andrew the April 11th 1727. She had married in first weddings the January 28th 1692 in Lille Saint-Andrew Pierre François Joseph Platevoet (wire of François and Jeanne Laignel) and in second Joseph weddings Merchier.
Hauchart house
Claude Hauchart, prosecutor in Lille.
Unnamed stronghold
Stronghold vicomtier held of the seigniory of consistent Roubaix in 12 ground bonniers with ploughing on the way of Lille to Tournai.
Spriet family
- Jehan Spriet.
- Jehan Spriet, wire of the precedent, living in Hellemmes of 1564 with 1582, died before 1600, miller.
- Anthoine Spriet, wire of the precedent, born in Hellemmes towards 1575, died after 1637, miller of the lord of Roubaix, buys the middle-class of Lille the January 7th 1600. It Marie in first weddings, before 1600, with Pasque Crucq, in second weddings towards 1617 with Michelle Cornille (girl of Joseph and Marguerite Lamotte), of which, resulting from the second marriage:
- Jerome, miller, born in Roubaix the May 25th 1620, miller, married with Jacqueline Delerue.
- Jean born in Roubaix the October 6th 1625, married to Roubaix the June 13rd 1650 with Agnes Delebecq, of which:
- Jean, born in Roubaix in 1652, married in second weddings with Jeanne Caucheteux.
- Antoine Spriet saw in Roubaix of 1602 with 1642, his second wife, of 1618 with 1637.
Stronghold of Hocque
Mention found on a level established just after the Revolution indicating “stronghold and vault of Hocque but the vault is attested in 1738”. The vault of Elocques was very a long time causes litigation between the parishes of Hellemmes and Fives. Although a judgment intervened in favor of the second, the vault remained hellemmoise. The tradition according to which the vault would have been built for a family member Dordin (Louis) unscathed income of the wars of Italy, in 1797, is put at fault. It is about a recovery of existing, possibly of a rebuilding. (see in the chapter of the priests, Roussel abbot).
Stronghold and supposed of Humières
This stronghold is named thus on the same level as quoted Ci above. The building thus called seems to have been used as quartering to the marquis d' Humières at the time of the countryside of Flandres by Louis XIV in 1668.
Supposed of Hellemmes
The supposed one of Hellemmes included/understood the totality of the plots of lands of the abbey of the Ladies of Abiette as well as a very large building “with the square”, typical of our agricultural area. At the 15th century, the buildings seem to be located between the current streets Fénelon, Delemazure, Abbé Six, Faidherbe. Two centuries later, victim of the outdatedness, the wars, the religious disorders, the real inheritance is tiny room to the quarter of its initial surface. The number of Censier S and farmers multiplies. At the end of the 17th century, the principal Cense is known as of Abiette.-
Pierre of Cambers, wire of Guillaume, takes a lease the May 30th 1489. It compared as pilot at the time of the tax investigation of 1499.
- Wallerand of Cambers, wire of the precedent, born with Marcq-in-Barœul, died in 1552, husband of Antoinette Willan. Middle-class man of Lille by purchase of the December 5th 1505, it takes beams, only, the January 21st 1496, May 7th 1504, February 13rd 1514 and with his Arnould son the September 6th 1530.
- Arnould of Cambers, wire of the precedents, dead in January 1579, husband of Madeleine de Lobel, also dead in January 1579. It takes a lease in 1570.
- Georges Lambelin, born with Lesquin, wire of Gerard. It buys the middle-class of Lille the February 5th 1562. He had married Francoise of Cambers, girl of Jean (perhaps wire of Wallerand referred to above). He takes beams, only, the December 23rd 1586, October 29th 1597, and with his son Georges, the May 12th 1605.
- Georges Lambelin, sons of the precedents, born in Hellemmes, marry Barbe Damide. It becomes middle-class of Lille by relief the July 2nd 1599. It takes the supposed one with lease, only, the July 3rd 1514.
- Georges Lambelin, sons of the precedents, marry Jeanne Bouchery (girl of Jean). He becomes middle-class of Lille by relief the November 20th 1626. The March 17th 1632, it signs a lease for “part of the grounds of old supposed”.
- Francoise Lambelin, girl of the precedents Marie in first weddings with Jean Leuridan (wire of Adrien and Marie of Saulchois), middle-class man of Lille by relief of the August 13rd 1630. It takes with lease part of the grounds of supposed the March 8th 1632. Of this marriage, it retains a son, who follows.
- : Francoise Lambelin Marie in second weddings with Flowered of the Hovel, died before 1676, (wire of Guillaume and Pasque Corman, itself girl of Jean, Hellemmes) which sign a lease the April 4th 1631, March 15th 1647, and two others in 1653.
- Jacques Delemazure born in Hellemmes the November 4th 1649, dies there the August 31st 1671. He marries Catherine Hallée, born in Hellemmes the November 6th 1650, dies there the May 14th 1700, girl of Louis (itself wire of Louis) and of Deleplancq Barb, from where:
- Charles Louis (or Charles Floris), farmer (1679-?)
- Coming Nicolas, which follows.
- Coming Nicolas Delemazure, farmer, born in Hellemmes the May 22nd 1687, there deceased the March 9th 1739. He marries in Hellemmes the November 25th 1716 Marie Elisabeth Delobel, born in Hellemmes the May 19th 1682, there deceased the February 17th 1759, girl of Jose and of Francoise Hallez, from where
- Michel Archange, which follows
- Anne Michelle (1720-?)
- Marie Francoise Joseph (1723-?)
- Charles François Joseph (1724-before 1781)
- Michel Delemazure Archangel, plowman, still qualified of censier of the Ladies of Abiette. It Marie with Marie Pink Deffontaines, girl of Jacques (censier of Abiette) and of Marguerite Mahieu.
- Pierre Pollet, wire of Bernard, Marie with Antoinette of the Brabant, girl of Louis and Frémault Barb, widow of Jean Boutillier. It signs beams the March 13rd 1651, November 26th 1659, April 24th 1670 and January 27th 1678.
- Anne Boutillier, girl of Jean and Antoinette of the Brabant, will marry Jean Desfontaines, censier of Abiette.
Supposed of Abiette
The supposed one of Abiette was built at the 17th century with the site of old supposed of Hellemmes but of less built importance.- Jean Deffontaines, wire of Jean and Isabeau Pottier (which will marry in second weddings Pierre Pollet), sergeant of Hellemmes. He marries the January 31st 1669 Anne Boutillier, baptized in Marquette the April 7th 1647, died in Hellemmes the October 8th 1697, girl of Jean and Antoinette of the Brabant (see supposed of Hellemmes). By marriage contract on July 30th 1695, Jean Deffontaines remarie with Marrying Cornille, resident with Seclin, girl of Charles. Jean Deffontaines had signed a lease the November 18th 1694.
- Jacques Deffontaines, sons of the precedents, die in Hellemmes the October 30th 1741, Marie with Annappes the October 29th 1704 with Marie Marguerite Mahieu born in Annappes the January 23rd 1677, died in Hellemmes the September 29th 1742, girl of Robert and Catherine Verdière. In 1697, Jacques Deffontaines appears as lieutenant d' Hellemmes; it signs beams the July 4th 1713 and July 17th 1722.
- Marie Pink Deffontaines, girl of the precedents, born in Hellemmes the April 5th 1714, there deceased the December 25th 1806, Marie the October 30th 1741 with Hellemmes with Michel Delemazure Archangel (see supposed of Hellemmes).
Supposed Saint-Anthony
Jean Baptist Mountain, born in Fives, died in Hellemmes the December 19th 1790 at the 63 years age, wire of François and Marie Beard Eléonore. He is known as widower at the time of his marriage the July 19th 1754 with Hellemmes with Marie Elisabeth Deledal, born in Wasquehal the March 13rd 1714, died in Hellemmes the August 14th 1792, widow in first weddings of Jacques Lescroart, girl of Jean Baptiste and Jeanne Lemesre, of which, of the second marriage:- Marie Anne Joseph (1756-?)
- Alexandre Joseph, which follows
- Louis Joseph (1791-?)
- Cyriaque Joseph (1792-?)
- Jean Baptist Joseph (Year II?)
Pertaining to worship buildings
The Saint-Denis church
1517 is the generally allowed year as being that of the construction of the first true church of Hellemmes. It is possible to make the bringing together with those of Lezennes, from which the bell-tower are dated, Flers, Sainghin in Mélantois, etcThe survey archaeological, known as of the Fénelon appendix, carried out in June and July 2001 informs us well better as for the evolution of this construction. Five successive states could be released, according to the various types of construction:
- Standard 1: represented by East-West wall directed a 16 cm thickness towards a 7 m length, with the right of the bell-tower, supported by a rectangular buttress of 1 m × 1,25 Standard Mr.
- 2: represented by two walls with right angle shouldered by an oblique buttress. The East-West wall of 1,25 m out of 4 m length with a North-South return. The extension towards the East could not be given.
- Standard 3: walls drawing a quadrilateral of approximately 25 m ². The South-western angle is supported by a buttress of 1,50 × 1,50 Mr.
- Type 4: East-West wall directed of 1m of width observed towards 7 Standard Mr.
- 5: East-West wall directed of 0,50 m width towards 6 m length. This wall took support on the foundations of former states.
This first church was placed under the term of Saint-Ghislain. Ghislain saint, born with Athens at the beginning of the 7th century, died in 686, had been designated by Amand saint, bishop of Maastricht, for évangéliser Hainaut. He founds the monastery of That, close to Mons, in Belgium, which will be at the origin of the town of Saint-Ghislain. The moms placed themselves under the protection of this saint who protected from the infantile diseases and the epilepsy. Although often represented as a bishop, nothing proves that it received the episcopal dedication.
Until in the Years 1960, the October 9th, a worship was returned to this saint. An oval aluminum médaillette was distributed to this occasion, habit recently taken again. The avers introduces the saint of face, out of episcopal dress, in background, the monastery of That. The turn carries the inscription “Ghislain saint request for us”. With the reverse, is on four lines the inscription “Ghislain saint venerated in Hellemmes-Lille”.
The nave of this first church probably had a thatch roof. Only the bell-tower remains of which description made by the Vermeersch abbot was published on several occasions in the Petit Hellemmois , in the beginning, then in various municipal bulletins. Less known is that, very precise of Emile Theodore, general conservative of the museums of the palate of the Art schools. Below, extracted the report/ratio presented at the time of the request for classification on November 18th 1922:
- the tower of the old church of Hellemmes is one of the best specimens of these towers characteristic of the churches of the Flanders Wallonne, high in second half of the 15th century and in the beginning of the 16th century as one sees it in Lille (church Holy-Catherine), in Flers, Sainghin in Mélantois and Ronchin (Northern).
- Above the second stage is laid out the frame of the belfry of the bells whose corner posts rest on the corbels being detached from the facings of the interior walls. The whole of this tower, whose sober one and wise decoration is provided by the lines of shade and light of the mouldings and where the sculpture intervenes very discreetly only in the planks of foliages, of the bottoms of lamp, the corbellings, of the high parts, to break the monotony of the mouldings sometimes, gives the impression of a solid mass while preserving a silhouette élégant.
To note that the turret sheltering the driving spiral staircase with the upper floors is posterior with the erection of the remainder of the bell-tower: the hardcores are not related to those of the tower. Moreover, the floor of the first stage is located at a level lower than that of origin, whereas that of the second stage is lower.
Mahieu Coat, sayettor in Lille, consigned a certain number of events which marked its time. At the date of the January 11th 1557, it notes: “It made a so high wind, which abatit the bridge of the door Saint-Saver which was a wood bridge, and rua the bell-tower of the hospital Gantois, and then the bell-tower of the church of Hellemmes, and the bell-tower of Singhin Mélantois, and the justice of the door of the Patients, and several barns and much of houses. ” In the night of the August 9th 1580, the hurlus, which badger the suburbs with Lille, set fire to the majority of the buildings of the village. These two events seem well to call in question the true date of construction of the bell-tower, still a part it could have been re-used. It is only starting from 1585 that the building starts to be refitted. In 1600, main Nicolas Vilain celebrates the first mass in the hardly repaired church. The chorus was decorated (in 1601) with a canopy comprising the weapons of several family members of FLye, lords of Ennequin.
In 1667, catholic French, succeeding catholic Spanish, were accepted at least in the indifference. In 1713, succeeding Dutch calvinists, they will take figure of liberators. The facilities which had been granted to the Protestants were the cause of the hostility of the population towards the occupying power. “All the region which surrounds Lille, Tournai and Holy Amand is thus poisoned by venom calvinist” (Fénelon, Correspondance ).
Within the framework of work anticlerical of the Revolution, the Saint-Ghislain church is sold by adjudication the August 26th 1799 to the Dassonville citizen of Lille for an amount of 184.000 francs. The purchaser could also acquire the churches of Aubencheul-with-Vat, Hélesmes, Heap-Saint-Vaast, Raucourt and Rumegies. Contrary to the conditions of sale, these churches were not destroyed. In 1800, that of Hellemmes is repurchased by Sirs Delmer, farmer with Fives, and Monnet, farmer with Hellemmes, for 30.000 francs each one. In that, they would have been helped by the chapter of Turned to return the building to the worship. Monnet of which it is question is Pierre Joseph (1751-1834), uncle de Jean Baptiste who will be mayor of Hellemmes of 1865 with 1870. A first baptized bell Marie Louise is installed in the bell-tower in 1812. The godfather is Jean Baptiste Corsin, former mayor, and the godmother Marie Louise Condé.
Fifteen years later, Hellemmes having suffered from the Napoleonean wars is seen allotting two new bells, following the repair of the bell-tower (in 1824):
- Marie Catherine , godfather Pierre François Joseph Salembier, mayor of Mons-in-Barœul, godmother, Marie Christine Meurisse, farm with Mons-in-Barœul.
- Emilie Pauline , godfather Isidore Ducatillon, former mayor, godmother Emilie Pauline Joseph Religious bigot, owner in Lille, marries of Philippe Joseph Brianciaux. She is president of the Company of maternal charity and president of the rooms of asylum of Lille.
Under the Ancien Mode, the bells symbolized the community so well that sometimes punishments were inflicted to them: in 1737, an intendant of Bourbonnais reduces the bells from a local church, and makes it whip by the hand of the torturer to punish the inhabitants who had taken party for salt-smugglers.
When Pierre Vanacker arrives at the cure of Saint-Denis, the church falls almost in ruins. It will almost completely finance repairs of its own funds, in spite of all the small different ones that it will have with the municipality, represented by its mayor, Jean Baptiste Ghesquières. Thus, it will have sharp remonstrances to have changed a frame of the church without prior approval, but after the completed work; the supplement of treatment which it received, is 100 francs per annum, will be removed to him of 1881 with 1883. The Fabric committee asks for the creation of a vicariate together with an allowance of 200 francs for the holder, whereas the priest does not claim any sacrifice on behalf of the commune in what relates to it; the municipal council gives an unfavorable opinion, specifying “that he intends to engage with any expenditure on this subject neither in the present, nor in the future” (deliberation of the April 10th 1883). However, established vicariate with Hellemmes is maintained, as well as the allowance of 450 francs (deliberation of the November 21st 1884). Not very inclined with rancour, our priest will bequeath a sum of 50.000 francs to the city (the fifth will be transferred of right to the commission of the Welfare office). To regulate the expenses of succession rising with 4.500 francs, a government bond to 3% will be emitted.
The February 12th 1903, at 2 o'clock in the morning, at the time of an attempted burglary a fire is declared in the sacristy which is completely destroyed with all that it contains including 155 years of files. The amount of the insurance, is 5 835,73 francs, allows a repairing of the room, the commune having agreed to cover the expenses of the Hannotin architect, of Lille.
During the First World War, the Germans requisitions the non-ferrous metals: March 1st 1917, between 7 and 14 hours, the organ pipes are torn off, the bells thrown in bottom of the bell-tower.
Thanks to the generosity of the parishioners, three new bells are baptized the August 6th 1922 at 3 p.m.
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the “Bell of the baptized Parish” Denis Ghislaine Marie Louise François Georgette carries, inter alia, the inscription “God wants to bless all the parishioners of Saint-Denis in their temporal and spiritual businesses”. It sounds the F and weighs 1050 kg.
- the “Bell of baptized France” Jeanne Marguerite Marie Georges Auguste Pauline Leon François Pierre and Paul Marie Anna carries the inscription “I sound France… and I invite to request God so that he condescends to grant Peace in the Sacred union. Likes God whom my voice is made hear a long time and whom my calls are heard! ”. It sounds the ground and weighs 730 kg.
- the “Bell of Work” baptized Marie Joséphine Cecile Blanche Leon Charlemagne Paul Julien Georges , carries the inscription “I invite all the workers to line up under the standard of Our Lord Jesus-Christ. Makes God that the owners and the workmen link themselves in justice and charity! ”. It sounds the the and weighs 520 kg.
In January 1975, the arm of one of the statues of the pediment of the church is detached. By security measure, the other ornaments are dismounted by the firemen, that is to say a cross and six statues (2,5 meters in height, 300 kg of stone of Lezennes) among which one recognizes a Virgin, a saint Denis, a saint Joseph, a saint Ghislain, others not being more identifiable.
The bell-tower was registered with the additional Inventory of the historic buildings by decree of the Minister for the State education and the Art schools on February 11th 1929.
Large organ
The organ carrying the signature of the brothers Damiens, organ builders to Gaillon (the Eure), in the diagrids of the instrument, was built twice: in 1875 for its central part and in 1877 for the addition of the five sets of pedals, time to which the keyboards, which left the instrument, are installed in a separate piece of furniture so that the organist is vis-a-vis the furnace bridge.- In 1922, Joseph Hentges, mayor of Hellemmes, fact call to Jean Heel, organ builder to Lambres-lez-Douai which replaces the zinc pipes for a sum of 3.500 francs taken on the war damagees (those of origin were out of tin, but were removed by the Germans in 1917, damaging the diagrid of the instrument at the same time). An advance of 3.000 francs had been granted the previous year to the municipality by the service of the war damagees.
- In 1936, the air is produced by an engine financed by a parochial subscription of 7.000 francs. It would seem that work (repair rises with 7 400,00 francs) was carried out by the Sequies house.
- In 1975, the organ returns the heart. The April 5th, the commission diocésaine of the organ of Lille, represented by Philippe Lefebvre, in fact an expertise following the request of the Dequae abbot. The priest is invited to launch an invitation to tender. The June 16th, a project of restoration in four sections established by Mr. Loridan is submitted to the commission of the organ. The September 26th, this commission adopts the project of raising of the instrument and the project of food, the whole for an amount of 22 500,00 francs. The parish chooses an electronic organ.
- In 1985, the organ, in ruin, is given little by little in service. Mr. Pascal, organ builder in Lille, restores the five plays of the large organ. Claude Grard remakes electrical installation.
- In 1986, given under operation of the five plays of the account. Repair and higher protection of the organ by the company Gommenne Brothers of Hellemmes.
- In 1988, given in operating condition of the pedals drew some.
- In 1989, given under operation of the last six plays of the large organ.
- In 1990, given under operation of the five plays of the pedals.
- the November 21st 1990, the organ is classified among the historic buildings. The parish arrived at the end of the share of the restoration that it had been fixed for total costs of 120 866,66 francs.
- In 1996, the company Michel Garnier, of Acquin-Westbécourt (Pas-de-Calais) is indicated to continue the restoration for an amount of 908 522,00 francs. The order of service is established the 1998 for a completion period eighteen months. Mr. Garnier ceases his activity because of a voluntary liquidation. Jean-Pascal Villard, organ builder to Thénezay (Saône-et-Loire), is designated by the State to complete the restoration. The cost of the total restoration, for the commune, rises thus with 1.208 522,00 francs.
Composition of the Large Organ
(The figure gives, in feet, the height of the largest pipe of the play.)The pipes are out of wood for certain low (bumblebee 16) or out of tin like the majority of the pipes. Some have a conical form, the sets of sheers which agree by razettes. There are two manual keyboards and one of pedal; thus the Large Organ has 678 pipes, account 336 and pedal 135. It is a total of 1149 pipes which the organist can order starting from the console. In 2000, Mr. Vilard, organ builder, are in charge of a new restoration. The inauguration of the organ finally given in state takes place the December 7th 2001. A concert is given by Philippe Lefebvre, director of the national conservoire of the area, holder of the organ of Notre-Dame de Paris.
The presbytery
According to certain figurative plan, the pastoral house was located towards 1665 - 1709 roughly at current the 52 at 56, rue Faidherbe, in withdrawal of current alignment.Before 1857, the pastoral house was a property which a widowed lady Rouze rented with the commune. In this year, it decides not to renew the lease. The municipality then decides to build a new following plans of the Marteau architect (it will become the presbytery of the parish Notre-Dame de Lourdes). The cost of the new building breaks up as follows:
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imperial Subsidy: 3.000 F
- Gift Vanacker Abbot: 2.000 F
- Loan: 3.000 F
- Total: 8.000 F
- Expenditure according to estimate: 7 815,93 F
The property, located at 1, rue de l'Abbé-Six, was constituted on two more important properties. The first by contribution of Jean Debacque Baptist under deed of partnership of the Civil society of the buildings of Hellemmes-Lille the March 14th 1890 (Main Desmazières in Lille), the remainder by acquisition of this same company the January 11th 1924 Miss Élise Samain (Main Pourbaix with Ronchin).
The company was dissolved and its good reserved the December 20th 1977 (Main Fountain in Lille) for financial Association of Lille and its suburbs and with the Association of real management of the diocese of Lille (which accepted the property known mentioned).
The March 16th 1981, the masonry is yielded to the town of Lille to be shot down (Masters Fountain and Fanyau in Lille).
The cemetery
At the origin located around the church, it was transferred to the current site in 1866.
Priests
- 1357-1390 : Pierre Dormelli
- 1390-1395: Michel de Hubiers
- 1485: Enguerran the Boilerman
- : Jacquemart Crespel is the first known parochial clerk; it appears among comparing at the time of the tax investigation of 1491. The clerk assists the priest: he is Master bell ringer, he sings with the offices, sometimes schoolmaster, he must learn how to read and write to the children, to teach catechism to them.
- 1595-1601: Antoine Peze
- 1601-1604: Pierre de Hanne
- 1604: Pachard Legrand
- :It is perhaps about what one would now call a vicar, possibly the priest of another parish carrying out a interim .
- 1604-1606: Jean de Willy
- 1606-1608: Jean Arbant
- 1608-1610: Jean de Trie
- 1610-1621: Jean de Salon
- 1621-1623: Anselme Philippe
- 1623-1627: Guillaume Carlier
- 1627-1642: Michel Dovecote
- 1642-1653: Jacque Creteau
- :Probably born with Turned (Belgium), wire of Philippe, heraldic painter, genealogist and king of weapons and Madeleine Hoyer. The family carried as weapons: of sand to the money rafter, accompanied by three merlettes by same. Cimier: a money merlette enters a half flight of money and a half flight of sand. Currency: Fortune Crest.
- 1653-1709: Anselme Bocquart
- :The departmental records of North preserve the parochial registers of Hellemmes over the period 1694-1716. According to the writing, it would seem that this priest became almost blind towards the end of his ministry.
- : The 11 May 1694, Olivier Six establishes a “figurative plan made with the requisition of the Ladies of Abbiette in Lille for different between known as Dames & Mister… Pasteur de Hellemmes iceluy veu to have right to pass on the house and heritage pertaining to known as Dames because of their supposed to that Hellemmes belonging to the stronghold & Srie of aforesaid Hellemmes occupied by Guillaume Liénard” (DNA Lille 183)
- 1709-1724: Nicolas Antoine Cornillot
- 1724-1727: Charles François Jacquart
- 1727-1751: Jose de Monchy
- : He dies in Hellemmes the June 19th 1751; its act of burial is written by Jean Baptiste of Hamel, priest of Lesquin. Chasserel of the revenues of Jacques Augustin Imbert, lord of Chéreng: (in certain Desmons) farm with Gruson, 5 hundreds of ground with Genech coming from Jose de Monchy, wire of Gabriel, Pasteur d' Hellemmes. In 1738, the parochial clerk is Simon Samain.
- : 1742-1752: Charles Desmarest
- : The beginning of a parochial act of the May 12th 1742 is written as follows: “I undersigned cleaned priest of this parish state to have appointed day and year that above the sior Charles Desmarest, priest…”
- 1751-1753: Pierre Joseph the Red
- : And not Haire as the Vermeersch abbot transcribed it by error, error included in the various later copies.
- 1753: Gregoire Dujardin and François Ladislas Lequeux
- : Priests récollets commissioned by Small PC, desservitor.
- 1753-1764: Jean Dominique the Master
- : sign its first act the May 25th 1754. He dies in Hellemmes the April 24th 1764.
- 1763: Jean Prevost Baptist and François Philibert
- : Commissioned by Small PC, desservitor, the second, priest récollet of the house of Lille.
- 1764-1765: Jacques Mathon
- : Desservitor appointed in March 1765. He dies in Hellemmes the July 8th 1765.
- 1765: Jacques Crepy
- : Deputy by the desservitor.
- 1765-1791: Hubert François Martin
- : He dies the March 17th 1791 with Hellemmes, 72 years old, buried 19 in the presence of Jean Ignace Joseph and Pierre Joseph Martin, his brothers. The register of 1791 “is represented the March 18th 1791 because of died of alive Martin Master priest cleaned of this arrived parish the 17 of the same month that we judges president of the court of the district of Lille signed and initialed according to the ordinance. Lambelin chair”. Until 1789, but since an unspecified date, the parochial clerk is Louis François Joseph Samain.
- 1791-1848: Joseph Marie Duthoit
- : Born the December 26th 1736 with Wattrelos, commune where he was vicar before his nomination with Hellemmes, died with Hellemmes the October 18th 1848. Monk about saint Augustin. Priest of Hellemmes the September 25th 1791, elected cleaned constitutional the October 5th of the same year. Pursuant to the decree of the August 28th 1790 obliging the clergy to lend oath of fidelity to the civil Constitution of the clergy and ordering the provision of the old seigneuriaux strongholds and the funds attached to the religious authority, J.J. Marie Duthoit renews her oath in front of the municipality the October 9th 1791. However, the authorities diocésaines recognize it like priest of Hellemmes only as from 1802.
- 1848-1901: Pierre Réginald Vanacker
- : Born in Flêtre the September 14th 1811, died in Hellemmes the June 26th 1901. Main actor of the rebuilding of the church.
- 1902-1907: Louis Lecompte
- 1907-1914: Paul Six
- : Died in Cassel the June 27th 1936. A biography under the title of the life of Monseigneur Six is devoted to him. It creates, in 1894, the review the Christian Democrat .
- 1914-1931: Georges Decambron
- : Stopped by the Germans in 1916, it will be locked up three months with the citadel of Lille. During this period, it will be replaced by the Pollet abbot, relative of Leon Trulin.
- 1931-1942: Jean Louis Tack
- : Originating in Tourcoing, he works with heat for the work of holy Elisabeth who deals of the collection and the redistribution of clothing and other essential items.
- 1942-1963: Jean Roussel
- : Prisoner of war in 1940. It organized the most beautiful processions at the time of Blessed Sacrament and of the communions. They left the Saint-Joseph school and joined the Saint-Denis church by the streets Delemazure, Roger-Salengro and Faidherbe. Regularly prohibited, they were the subject of statements (see the local by-laws of the June 9th, 1900 and August 29th, 1913). He is also the initiator of a new procession, in May, which started with the vault of Élocques, moved towards the firm Manor house and finished with the Notre-Dame vault of Good-Death. He was helped by many vicars, placed path of the Priest, of which abbots Dumortier, Liénart, Demmersman, etc
- 1963-1969: Georges Vermeersch
- 1969-1982: Germain Dequae
- : Is on the initiative of the restoration of Large the Organ.
- 1982-1993: Gerard Melchers
- 1993: Jean Marie Destailleurs
- 1993: Jean Marie Descamps
- : Born in Armentières in 1929.
Church Notre-Dame de Lourdes
The construction of this church was decided in 1896. Six years later, it was finished. The stained glasses did not cross the various conflicts and could not be restored, the paperboards having been lost. Because of the bombardments, the church is closed during the Second world war. It will be reopened on February 1st 1946 under the patronage of the Liénart cardinal.Priests
- 1902-1912 : Célestin Bailleul
- 1912-1919 : Athanase Deloutre
- 1919-1944 : Jules Mestdag
- 1944-1950: Pierre Ammeux
- 1950-1957: Charles Veret
- 1957-1968: Wished Cazier
- 1968-1975: Auguste Vanhoenacker
- 1975-1988: Jean Desmet
- 1988-1989: Andre Vanderstraete
- 1989-1993: Gerard Brouck
- 1993-2000: Jean Marie Descamps
- 2000: Joseph Hériveaux
Various buildings
The vault of Élocques
Mention found on a level established just after the Revolution indicating “stronghold and vault of Hocque but the vault is attested in 1738. ” The vault of Élocques was very a long time causes litigation between the parishes of Hellemmes and Fives. Although a judgment intervened in favor of the second, the vault remained hellemmoise. The tradition according to which the vault would have been built for a family member Dordin (Louis) unscathed income of the wars of Italy, in 1797, finds put at fault. It is about a recovery of existing, possibly of a rebuilding.
The Notre-Dame vault of Good-Death
In the beginning located at the angle of the streets Faidherbe and Roger-Salengro, the owner had had the authorization to transfer it to the cemetery. It was acquired by the commune for frank the symbolic system the March 16th 1994, coming from Textile SA Counter of North (more known under the name of Nydel or Delesalle). The vault had entered the industrial inheritance following the fusion of the companies Delesalle and Raymond Voituriez SA.
The Desnoulez vault
Was, towards 1900, street Faidherbe, vis-a-vis the Saint-Denis church, with the site of the old pilori. The Desnoulez brewery (announced in 1877) was replaced by the Wine of the Rocks then by the Fronton .
The vault Manor house
Was, towards 1900, vis-a-vis the Gravelines city.
Worship antoinist
There was a vault antoinist street Sailor-hat.
Reformed church
A reformed church is located street Salembier, but the room does not seem any more used.
Working priests
Dominican brothers (Bernard, Joseph, Jacques, Charles and Michel) settled in 1948 with 118, rue Jean-Bart, an old bar. They were the first to be settled in the area. The adventure started with Jacques Screpel who remained during three years with the head of the family textile group, was made engage with the factory of Fives (in 1947) and settled in Hellemmes. In a few years, the movement of the working priests became extensive. Social Catholicism, the birth of the JOC, the book France, ground of mission which kills, as of 1943, the myth of a deeply catholic country, constitute the harbingers. In 1954, the pope Pie XII requires that all the working priests leave the factories and give up their trade-union mandates. The three priests hellemmois must be carried out. The Liénard cardinal is the large craftsman of their maintenance in the district. Tens of Dominican pass by the “118”, one of them becomes even bishop. The father Joseph Robert was to advise communal in Hellemmes. In September 2000, the father Charles Queneau dies. Turning to the last of them, the father Michel Perret, a certain number of inhabitants of the district created an association: “Friends of the 118” to repurchase the room and to restore it.
Brood of Augustins
In 1614, the hermits of Saint-Augustin were authorized to open a house in Lille (currently street of Augustins). Michel Delemarre, in religion Michel brother, wire of Jean François and Dorothée Delecroix, vêtu like brother lay the September 23rd 1758, profès the September 24th 1759, dead the October 7th 1778.
The Dominican ones brood
Bench in 1224 in the Saint-Pierre suburb in Lille. In 1578, the monks having had their house destroyed for the defense of the city were authorized to settle street Basse where they had a refuge.-
Brother Henri Samain, wire of Dominique and Marie Elisabeth Devarlet, beginner convers the April 25th 1782 (24 years), profès the May 4th 1765.
- Brother Denis Plays, profès clerk the May 13rd 1767 (27 years).
- Brother Pierre Joseph Brocart, beginner convers the March 24th 1773 (34 years), profès the April 11th 1777.
Brood of Abiette
Brood the Dominican founded one in 1274 by the Marguerite countess in the Saint-Pierre suburb. Transferred in the hotel from Auberchicourt, currently street of Turned to Lille.Desfontaines angelica, girl of Jacques and Marguerite Mahieu, receives the dress converses the August 20th 1741, 23 years, professes the August 26th 1742, dead the May 8th 1765. She was sister of Jacques Desfontaines, censier of Abiette with Hellemmes.
Brood of Annonciades
The March 27th 1628, the magistrate authorized some nuns annoncides Douai to come to settle with Lille, with load for them “not to be expensive neither at icelle city nor with the churls”. The convent was with the site of the street of the Mayor (it had to be cut down for the boring of this street). Jeanne Francoise Télie, in religion, sister Marie Madeleine of Saint-Henri, girl of Nicolas Antoine and Jeanne Francoise Levels down, beginner the June 9th 1767, professes the June 12th 1768.
Carmelite nuns brood
The October 14th 1626, ten Carmelite nuns settled in Lille, with authorization of the magistrate to the request of Philippe de Baudequin. They placed street of the Patients then street of Courtrai. Catherine Tesse, in religion sister Catherine of the Incarnation, girl of François and Simone Mouthine, takes the dress at the 29 years age, on January 1st 1676, converses, dies the March 12th 1716.
Ursulines brood
In 1638, the Ursulines of Saint-Omer, driven out by the war, came to seek refuge in Lille, places at the Cornflowers.Marie Anne Joseph Despinoy, in religion Saint-Dominique sister, born the October 20th 1723 of Gerard Dominique and Marie Cecile Daudenarde, beginner the July 25th 1746, professes the February 11th 1749, dead the January 2nd 1755.
Population
During centuries, the population hellemmoise had to deal with all the catastrophes, its proximity of Lille not arranging the things.
The winter 763 - 764 was rigorous so much so that the sea was cold on our coasts. Inside the Gaulle, the cold extraordinary ones were announced: in certain regions, to saying historians, it would have fallen until ten meters from snow.
In 821 - 822, all the rivers of Europe, in particular the the Seine, the Elba and the the Danube were taken by the ices during more than one month. The large rivers of Gaulle and the Germanie were frozen so much that, during the thirty days space and more, one passed there over to horse and with carts.
In 1073 - 1074, strong frosts since the beginning of November until the April 15th, accompanied by a strong wind and dessicant. “The mills not being able to function in consequence of the catch of the rivers and rivers, the army of Henry IV, emperor of Germany, suffered cruelly from the lack of flour and, consequently, bread. ”
In 1114 - 1115, terrible winter in Brittany, just as in England. “The sea froze in the Manche at some distance from the coasts, and the largest stones were split with glare. ”
In 1124 - 1125, cold extraordinary with abundant snowfalls in France, Germany and Italy. “In the rivers, the ice was so thick and so solid that it supported the cars charged; the horses circulated on the the Rhine as on the dry land. This bad weather was prolonged so much that the trees took their sheets only in May. ”
The years 1315 - 1316 are marked by a great famine in north of current France and in Belgium. “In 1315, the rains are very strong causing the complete failure of harvest. As of May 1316, the situation becomes inextricable: the price of the grains multiplied because of their scarcity. In the cities, at least, many people died of hunger. One was obliged, reads one daN the Histoire of England of Rapin of Thoyras, to hide the children with an extreme care, if one did not want to expose them to being catch to be used as food with the small drainage canals. ”
Even if this crisis is often regarded as crisis of subsistence, it should be added that continuation there a epidemic made, of dubious nature, increased the number of victims whatever the social class. The patients were reached of fever, which made name this disease “the burning inconvenience”.
These diseases undoubtedly various, due to the low resistance of the population in times of food shortage return periodically: in 1558,1564,1567,1582,1596,1597,1617,1636… The Peste had already touched our regions into 1360,1367,1400,1438…
The great colds continued to punctuate the life of our elder in 1324-1325, 1363-1364, 1407-1408, 1419-1420, 1434-1435, 1442-1443, 1480-1481, 1507-1508, 1534-1535, 1543-1544, 1552-1553, 1564-1565, 1568-1569, 1570-1571, 1594-1595, 1607-1608, 1615-1616, 1620-1621, 1640-1641, 1657-1658, 1659-1660, 1676-1677, 1683-1684, 1708-1709, 1715-1716, 1728-1729, 1739-1740, 1775-1776, 1783-1784, 1788-1789, 1794-1795.
Statutes touching the plague (Ordinance of the seigniories, March 21st 1549): 96. That when there is quelcun of died soubz their seigniory of the contagious disease, that ceulx quy will remain in the house puts or annoys to put near the huys or cover of ladie house, a boot of estrain, length of two feet, and also that ceulx and those demeurans in the aforementioned house carry each one a blancque rod in their hand, with danger of estre bannys of their seigniory, or aultrement pugnis with the discretion of their justice. 97. Order as mesdits lords, for certain causes and considerations with this them, as no one null since maintenat and before face neupces where there is more than twelve pairs of people, with danger to pay LX grounds of fine, and estre pugnys to discretion, mesdits lords and their justice. 98. That those and those quy have pourceaux, let us oisons or anettes, hold them enclosed in their house without leaving them widdier and endedans huyts last days and opposite free, on the fine of each one of the aforesaid case of XXX grounds. Two articles which show us the rigor regulating the life of each one in order to fight the fléau.
In many cities (Ypres, Leuwen, Turned, Bruges…), the municipal authorities had to make collect the bodies of late in the streets.
As of spring 1317, the situation starts to improve.
During the years 1431 - 1432, reign food shortage. From December 1434 in March 1435, the frosts are extremely strong. In 1436, freezing is so strong of Midsummer's Day (November 30th) at Fatty Tuesday according to whether the duke declares: “This year (1437) was moulte destruite and dangerous with the objection of the povre people which had as well to suffer and support as more cannot. ” The winter 1437-1438 is also of an extreme rigor.
Fortunately, in 1439, the Hanseatic vessels manage to deliver cereals.
At the time of the tax investigation of 1449, the representative of the parish declare that nobody is registered with the table of the poor (kind of Welfare office):
- all the churls pay the size;
- that they do not know if the imposition is similar in the other parishes: what amounts saying that it is less strong here.
- that they do not complain about the amount of the taxes.
In 1471, it is the plague which devastates Lille.
The May 21st 1546, note Mahieu Coat: “Downtown of Lille, the village which wanted six luivres the razière, was sold 8 books, and next Wednesday was sold to 5 books the razière the mesme village…”
In 1557, the famine is such as in Lille the price of corn assembles to 12 pounds the razière.
The winter 1708 - 1709 was so exceptionally cold that “the Scheldt and the Lily were frozen almost until the bottom”. In the area of Valencians, the frost which began the January 5th 1709 made it possible to go twenty days of continuation on the Scheldt. The winter destroyed corn like all other cereals. Although the décimateurs did not grant to the peasants to plow their grounds to sow them out of barley of spring, a decree of the Council of State, in the name of public Safety, made it possible to proceed in new sowings. Fénelon, in its memories, could write “the people fear as much the troops which must defend them as those of the enemies who want to attack them. Whole France is nothing any more but one large sorry hospital and without provisions. ”
In 1789, the rate of urbanization, in the general information of Lille, is of 33%.
As of the end of the Old Mode, the Jachère occupied nothing any more but approximately 6% of the agricultural surfaces of the department of North. The average wheat yield in the surroundings of Lille was almost twice higher than the national output. Thus, in 1804, the department of North provided for its requirements out of cereals and even managed to continue its exports. All the year, of the bovines high to the cattle shed, were nourished with fodder plants.
As for the daily food of the inhabitants, let us quote the Dieudonné prefect: “The meals of the day consist, the morning in a soup with the butter milk, with dining, of a soup to the butter milk or meat, tasting, slices of bread in the evening bread, butter, bread, cheese. ”
The real estate before and after the Revolution (in %)
(1) Various = State - Commune - Hospital
In spring 1789 prevails an important crisis of high cost of living. The harvest of 1788 was compromised because of a dryness followed by storms and rains devastators for corns and fodder. The winter is rigorous, the cold corns are replaced by the barleys of March, but the welding is not done.
The harvest of 1811 is bad.
With the second treaty of Paris (November 20th 1815), the needs for the Treasury to pay a heavy war indemnity encourage the king to reconstitute tariff barriers by establishing sedentary offices and brigades with horse on Hellemmes, Lesquin and Seclin. In first half of the 20th century, the epidemic diseases are the least fatal, except for the Spanish Grippe in 1919, and apart from the typhoid fever and of the infantile diseases.
Of 1925 with 1936, these diseases represent 3,6 deaths for 10.000 inhabitants, with a recrudescence of Rougeole between 1930 and 1933.
The figure reached in 1966, after a complementary census, would have entered the births, the deaths, the new inhabitants but not all the departures, this, in order to be able to name an assistant general secretary (For this possibility of nomination, it was necessary that the commune has 20.000 inhabitants).
Instantaneous of the trade about 1950
Distractions
Cinemas
There existed in Hellemmes two cinemas:- “Kursaal”, currently the “Léo-Lagrange room”, bought by the commune in 1975 with Mr. Coorevits. This one will present to the first turn local elections of on the list of A. Cornette, but will not be reproduced on the list for the second turn.
- “Royal”, known as also “Leleu”. The building was repurchased by Mr. Gahide de Baisieux which had installed a mini-market there: Sasi. Other trade in the same way standard followed one another there: Large, Fresh Market, Gone More, 8 to 8.
Ducasses
Traditionally, the ducasses took place the day of patron saint of the parish, the day of the Denis saint (or the Ghislain saint, which falls the same day) in Hellemmes.Ducasse of Hellemmes was said “to blue biecs” because it was held at the beginning of the winter, every year. Its tradition goes back to the beginning of the 15th century as proves it the following anecdote: The October 9th 1406, Simon the Mayor, baillif sergeant of Lille, stops the October 9th 1406, the day of ducasse of Hellemmes Girardins Carpentiers, sergeant of Jehan of the Mound, lord of Anstaing and owner of the stronghold of Lesquin. Given in release on bail, the defendant is shown to have circulated out of weapons, whereas this are interdict in the cities, weddings, ducasses, assembled common. The Room of Lille condemns it to a fine of 60 grounds. It appears, assisted of the prosecutor of the lord of Anstaing, asserting that sergeant of a stronghold vicomtier (just like baillifs, lieutenants and messiers) have the right to carry the weapons on all occasions, except in the city having a privileged law. The December 15th 1406, the men of stronghold of the Room of Lille déboutaient the baillif of Lille.
The intendant of Madrys noted in his memories: “Flamans are large amateurs of public festivals and réjoussances. Each city and each village have every year his which one names village fair, and which usually lasts eight days; the opening is done some by a procession of the Blessed Sacrament, and it is where one can say well that one often mixes crowned with the layman: géans, representation of the parads and hell, saints and devils which go in procession in the streets, are the principal entertainment of the people which, for the majority, gives up its work during all the time festival to divert themselves and make good expensive. ”
According to the need for sites (during work), ducasse it center, primarily, moved (street Roger-Salengro, Hentgès place, place of the Republic) whereas that of Guinguette always took place at the same place (street Faidherbe).
At the time of the communal office of the April 30th 1992 (the space of the Acacias was in construction), Gilles Pargneaux declared “ducasse It certainly essential, but is not recognized like a festival necessary falling under a popular sociology attached to this type of demonstration. ” On its side, Annie Wardavoir, assistant of the culture “wished to differentiate the horse-gears from children who are a good animation for this young public, other horse-gears which are rather obsolete and moreover too often generate the arrival of disturbing elements (minor delinquency)”. In conclusion, the office adopts the following provision: maintenance of ducasse with tightening and reduction of the trades.
Concerts
At the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century, of the contests and festivals of music took place every year, generally with the July 14th.Those of Hellemmes seemed very snuffed by the various formations; thus, in 1895, one did not count less sixty-four formations, a hundred and ten in 1899 coming from all the surrounding communes: Lille, Roubaix, Cysoing, Ronchin, Templeuve, Turned, Bachy, Hem, etc
Prices, varying from 25 to 200 francs, were granted for the companies, the behaviors civil and military, the distance, the chiefs. Festivals - musical - benevolences took place “With the Good Farmer” (currently coffee of “Alliance”) and counted companies hellemmoises almost all disappeared today: The municipal brass band, the philharmonic Company, the Union choral society, Revenge (pretense to have disappeared in 1905), the company “Infants d' Hellemmes”.
Coffees
Is quoted the cabaret “With the three Crowns” held by François Joseph Paurisse, born the March 8th 1745, wire of Pierre François and Marie Madeleine Delerue, married to Hellemmes the April 9th 1771 with Marie Flinois.With the which gallops industrialization of the 19th century, the coffees multiplied on the territory of the commune. In 1936, one did not count any less than 136, that is to say approximately 1 per 75 inhabitants (sometimes approximately twelve per street).
The Hellemus beer
Whereas there does not exist any more on Hellemmes of brewery, the tradition was to be perpetuated with the Hellemus beer; what was made in 2001. It is about a lager (beer of guard) of a rate of 6,2% alc., manufactured by the Mill of Ascq, biological, fermented twice (out of tank and bottle), not filtered and not pasteurized.
Cockfights
This type of entertainment is very old in the area: it is already announced to Amiens in 1575. Prohibited the November 19th 1963 (this forever respected law), then restored like local tradition the July 8th 1964, finding even like defender the General de Gaulle, which would have rétorqué with the detractors: “Since the cocks are eaten, it is necessary well that they die… ”. The last authorized combat took place, in Hellemmes, in the back-store of a bakery which is vis-a-vis the Saint-Denis residence. Thereafter, this type of entertainment did not take place any more but in the area of Baisieux; currently, these engagements are not held any more but in Belgium.
Mayors
Following the Decree of the December 31st 1789, the first municipal elections take place the February 11th 1790.President
- Hubert François Martin, priest of Hellemmes
Tellers
- Jacques Bury,
- Andre Leleu.
Composition of the first municipal council
- Mayor
- Municipal Michel Archangel Desfontaines
- (assistants)
- Jean Delobel Baptist,
- Louis Joseph Monnet,
- Charles Hallez.
- Notable (advisers)
- Louis Joseph Delemasures,
- Simon Manor house,
- François Tesse,
- Theodore de Lattre,
- Romain Despinoy,
- Denis Beghin.
- Prosecutor
- François Brocart.
- Andre François Leclerc, wire of Pierre and Deflandre Barb, born in Hellemmes the March 18th 1709, died in Hellemmes the June 19th 1792, husband of Marie Marguerite Marsaux, quoted as day laborer then sergeant of Hellemmes.
- Louis Joseph Samain, born in Hellemmes the September 22nd 1735, married to Fives the January 25th 1763 with Marie Anne Cordonnier, quoted lieutenant and baillif d' Hellemmes.
- Andre François Leclerc, wire of the precedents, born in Hellemmes the December 12th 1742, married to Fives the June 2nd 1767 with Welsh Séraphine, quoted as sergeant of the Ladies of Abiette.
- Simon Joseph Samain, born in Hellemmes the December 29th 1715, died in Hellemmes the August 19th 1779, married to Hellemmes the August 30th 1756 with Marie Jeanne Destombes, clerk of Hellemmes during forty seven years and lieutenant d' Hellemmes during nine years.
- Jacques François Lescroart, born in Esquermes about 1742, died in Hellemmes the January 23rd 1789, married to Hellemmes the May 12th 1772 with Marie Beard Tesse, sergeant keeps parish of Hellemmes.
- Jose Joseph Delobel, quoted alderman about 1740.
- Jacques Desfontaines, would have been alderman about 1770.
- Michel Archange Desfontaines, alderman the day before the Revolution.
- Michel Desfontaines Archangel: the patronym exists already known in Hellemmes in 1449.
- Jacques Bury, carter and plowman, born with Tournai towards 1716, Marie with Hellemmes the January 10th 1758 with Catherine Therese Dupire, widow of Ignace Lerouge, girl of Jean Martin and Marie Therese Flambremont. It does not leave any male descent.
- Louis Joseph Monnet is wire of Jean Charles, censier with Fretin and of Marie Anne Joseph Lefebvre, of Ronchin. He dies, apparently unmarried, the March 10th 1816 with Hellemmes. It is a nephew of Pierre Joseph who took part in the repurchase of the Saint-Denis church.
- Charles Joseph Haul, master carpenter, born in Wambrechies, dies in Hellemmes the April 16th 1818, wire of Charles Joseph and Meurisse Angelica, Marie the June 21st 1785 with Hellemmes with Catherine Therese Dupire, girl of Pierre Joseph and Catherine Melanie Dubus. It east can be downward of Jacques, married with Catherine Delemasure, living in Hellemmes in 1682.
- the Tesse family is known in Hellemmes since 1643 with Jerome, wire of François and Simone Montaigne. François (Joseph), adviser is downward. It Marie the July 29th 1783 with Marie Rose Nathalie Brocart, girl of Adrien and Marie Pink Delemar, marriage for whom is granted an exemption of consanguinity of the third to the fourth degrees.
- Theodore Delattre, miller and farmer, born in Lomprêt, died in Hellemmes the 30 ventose XII, is married with Augustine Marguerite Joseph Willoquez, of Lesquin. A descendant of this couple, Alfred, will bore the street of the same name.
- Romain Despinoy is downward of Jacques and Jossine Rego of which the oldest son Marie with Hellemmes in November 1706. Romain Joseph, born in Hellemmes the August 30th 1759, there deceased the April 23rd 1792, married in Hellemmes the July 8th 1787 with Marie Therese Martinache (of Bachy).
In 1831, the municipal council is elected for six years, renewable by half every three years. In 1885, he is elected for five years. In 1884, he is elected for four years.
The law of the April 10th 1929 fixes the term of the office of the city council men at six years and the vote for all. The number of advisers as well as the mode of election (with or without mixing) varies according to the number of inhabitants of the commune. The mayor and the assistants are elected by the majority municipal council with three turns. Currently, the electoral law applied is said to the proportional one.
List mayors
- 1790-1792 : Michel Desfontaines Archangel, censier of Abiette. His/her father, Jacques was alderman of Hellemmes
- 1792-1797: Jean Baptist Corsin
- 1797-1800: Jean Baptist Lerouge
- 1800-1801: Jean Corsin Baptist, elected for the second time.
- 1801-1803: Jean Baptist Manor house
- 1803-1805: Desfontaines, probably Michel Archangel, for the second time.
- 1805-1837: Isidore Ducatillon, born with Néchin (Belgium) the November 7th 1772, farmer domiciled with Hellemmes since 1804. In order to preserve its post of mayor, it must promise to remain definitively in Hellemmes and to ask French nationality. Under the monarchy of 1815, the charter which governs from now on the political life introduced the vote censitaire, thus supporting landowners and urban and rural aristocracy. An electoral law of 1820 still accentuates the political weight of the most fortunate voters: city council men named by the prefect on a proposal from the mayor, mayors chosen by the higher authority and held to lend oath of fidelity to the King during their nomination (law of the August 31st 1830: “I swear fidelity with the King of the French, obedience to the constitutional charter and the laws of the kingdom”). Under the Monarchy of July, the taxable quota is strongly reduced. Laws of 1831 and 1833 envisage now the election of the city council men, general and of district. The municipal council changes: the crafts, commercial and especially workers take importance more and more. Isidore Ducatillon is suspended by order of the prefect of the August 2nd 1837 to have refused to lend the oath of fidelity.
- 1837-1843: Henri Wery
- 1843: Jean Baptist Samain
- 1843-1847: Henri Salembier, resigns of his station
- 1847-1865: Emile O' Delant, named provisional mayor by order of the prefect of the April 3rd 1848 to replace Henri Salembier, resigner.
- 1865-1870: Jean Baptist Monnet
- 1870-1876: Jean Baptist Ghesquière
- 1876-1881: Nicodème Vrasse, resigns the September 9th 1881 because of its departure for Cambrai.
- 1881: All Saints' day Decalonne, mayor by interim by order of the prefect of the October 6th 1881.
- 1881: Alfred Lecocq, refuses the station immediately (December 20th 1881)
- 1881-1888: Nestor Manor house
- 1888-1889: Auguste Bernard, family of colonial sugar and beet sugar refiners. It directed a factory to Santes and another to Lille. Dies in the course of mandate.
- 1889-1896: Gustave Engrand. The municipal council then includes/understands an innkeeper (the mayor), four employees, six workmen, a director, a pharmacist, a teacher (Charles Lefebvre) and only one farmer. In 1896, Mr. Agache, city council man, worry about a room with use of town hall. Current, the too small one does not allow the confidentiality of the operations carried out and does not have any part allowing the members of the council to receive their fellow-citizens. It was located, seems it with the site of the current music school.
- 1896-1904: Marcellin Krebs, born the November 2nd 1860 in Lille, married before 1890 with Marguerite Huyghes. Profession: moulor. He moves on Lille about 1912. The municipal council includes/understands seventeen workmen, two shoe-makers, two innkeepers and a gardener; there is no more only one farmer. He will be still to advise of 1904 to 1908.
- 1904-1912: Oscar Fanyau
- 1912-1925: Joseph Hentges, born in 1875, shot in Marquette in 1942.
- 1917-1918: A. Delesalle, first assistant. Replace Joseph Hentges suspended by the German authority.
- 1925-1944: Wished Therby, born in Lille the January 5th 1879, married to Hellemmes the February 24th 1906 with Marie Deffranes; divorced by judgment the civil court Lille returned the December 7th 1922. Remarié with Hellemmes the February 24th 1926 with Jeanne Besson. A son legitimated with the first marriage (young death), without posterity of the second marriage. Died in Hellemmes the February 8th 1950. During its mandate, he endeavoured to develop school constructions as well as the achievements in social matter.
- 1944-1945: Gerard Clay, president of the municipal delegation.
- 1945-1947: Henri Hentges
- 1947-1977: Arthur Cornet, born the August 15th 1903 with Quarouble (Northern). Died in Hellemmes in February 1984. Revoked by the Vichy government of its functions of principal to Assevent (Northern), reinstated in 1944. Named principal Jean-Jaurès in Hellemmes which it transforms into CEG then in THESE. General secretary of the National union of the teachers in 1945, member of the superior council of State education, founder president of MGEN. General adviser of North in 1951 to 1969. Deputy of North in 1962 to 1968 and 1974 to 1979. Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1981 (knight in 1953), officer of the academic Palms, knight of the social Merit.
Deputy mayors
- 1977-1983 : Arthur Cornet
- 1983-2001: Bernard Derosier, deputy of North, general adviser since 1985. President of the general advice of 1985 to 1992 and since 1998. Touched by the office plurality of mandates, it gives up its stations of assistant of the mayor of Lille and deputy mayor of Hellemmes.
- 2001: Gilles Pargneaux, first assistant of B. Derosier at the time of the preceding mandate.
Through the wars
Hellemmes does not represent a strategic site but its situation in the suburbs of Lille makes that it had to undergo the effects of the conflicts which related to the close big city. The great concern of kings de France always was to push back the borders of North in order to ensure a better protection of Paris. However, the Flemish defended their territory, and especially their privileges, with roughness. The ceaseless wars were sources of misfortune for Hellemmes: troops as well friendly as enemy nourish themselves on the inhabitants when they cannot buy their “neutrality”. With the degradation of the Roman Empire become unable to defend the conquered territories the previous centuries, all the area becomes open to the barbarians. The Bourguignons occupy all the basin of the the Rhone, the Visigoth S occupy almost all the Midi, the Francs are Masters of Tournai. The Goths, the Burgundian ones, the Vandales which had imported the schism of the arianism, give up this one very quickly.The March 2nd 1127, the count of Flanders Charles the Good dies assassinated. Guillaume Cliton is selected to succeed to him, realizing many privileges. The count not having filled his engagements towards the population, Lille, Saint-Omer, Ghent and Bruges revolt. Louis VI, king de France, intervenes. In May 1128, the king must give up the head office of Lille where Philippe of Alsace had been cut off. Guillaume Cliton is killed in July in front of Alost. Thierry of Alsace succeeds to him. The recovery of the royal capacity started by Louis VI and Louis VII continues with Philippe Auguste which increases the royal field. In 1191, its authority is exerted until the limits of the current departments of North and the Pas-de-Calais. The king of England having refused to lend allegiance for its fields located in France, those are confiscated in 1202 pursuant to the feudal tradition. In 1213, a coalition including/understanding England, the States German, the counties of Flanders and of Bolted are formed. King of France, fascinating Lille for the second time, in makes destroy the fortifications: it will be more “beautiful” the fire of the year. During the winter 1213-1214: taken along fires, plunderings, inhabitants as serfs are the batch of all the surrounding villages. During a whole year, the war consists in devastating the strongholds belonging to the enemy, that it is by anglo-Flemish troops led by Ferrand of Portugal, or French troops carried out by the son of Philippe Auguste. Since Fibula, Philippe Auguste prepares a revolving movement of sound ost by Douai, Lille, Tournai (city where it arrives the July 26th 1214). The July 27th 1214, the hostilities end with the Bataille of Bouvines. The troops of Philippe Auguste devastate the surroundings; Hellemmes is only with eight kilometers. Jeanne of Flanders must accept the very hard conditions imposed on the Traité of Melun (1226).
Marguerite of Flanders succeeds Jeanne in 1244. Having married Bouchard d' Avesnes successively, count de Hainaut, then Guillaume de Dampierre, a quarrel rises between these two families. Philippe Beautiful the, assembled on the throne of France in 1285, encourages this competition which reaches the population among which reign a strong social inequality primarily caused by the urban development. Guy de Dampierre makes alliance with England and disavows his homage to king de France. Moreover, one dissension rises about the treaty of succession between Philippe IV and the count. Philippe the Beautiful one throws the interdict on the Flanders and, in June 1297, the royal army takes Béthune, Orchies (which opens its doors without fighting), on September 1st, Lille, besieged for the fifth time, capitulates. Villages and monasteries are once again devastated. The second phase of this countryside begins in January 1300. Charles de Valois takes Damme and Ypres. In May, the whole county is with the hands of king de France who places the Flanders under the authority of Jacques de Châtillon for a future integration at the kingdom. The July 11th 1302, the battle known as of the gold Spurs under the town of Courtrai is a disaster for the French. The Flanders is lost for the king. In August 1304, new countryside: the Flemings are crushed with Mons-in-Pévèle (August 17th). The August 20th, Seclin is burnt. Philippe of Flanders is besieged in Lille. The Treated Athis-on-Barley, in 1305, establishes the royal power on the Flanders until in 1369, where it passes to the brother of the king Charles V, Philippe Bold the, duke of Burgundy who marries Marguerite de Mâle, girl of the count de Flandre.
The War One hundred Year old
In 1339, the village is the theater of engagements between Louis of Nevers and the English. In 1347, it is Louis de Mâle, also against the English. By act of the April 7th 1370, Louis de Mâle bequeaths goods located to Hellemmes and Fives in collegial Saint-Piat of Seclin and to Saint-Pierre of Lille, reserving any justice however (high, low and average).In 1382, Charles VI, king de France, goes on Ypres. The French Army, strong from 160.000 men confined in Seclin, passes to Lille without stopping there, to place with the abbey of Inlays, then to move towards Tournai. It is the defeat of the Flemings with Rozebecque.
At the beginning of the 16th century, Flandres become Spanish possession following the advent of Charles Quint with the throne of Spain. One very hard period of repression against the Protestants starts.
In 1580, Gueux or Hurlus which had already begun their war iconoclast with Armentières (1566) returns to badger Lille by the south. They attack Lezennes but, pushed back towards Ronchin, they set fire to Hellemmes in the night of the August 9th. The church and the majority of the farms are destroyed. Only the bell-tower remains.
1608 still opens for Hellemmes a bad period: the count d' Annappes had received the order of the Albert archduke to place Spanish troops in Lille. The magistrate wanted nothing to know, and the soldadesque one was dispersed in the close campaigns. Hellemmes thus had to lodge often difficult hosts. In 1617, Hellemmois could see the passage of Gift Balthazar de Comèques active placing at Jean de Robles, with the castle of Annappes. Louis XIV was with the apogee of its power. He coveted this Flanders which its predecessors had not been able to conquer.
Since the conquest of Flandres by Louis XIV
The head office of Lille was decided in 1667. The king had his state major with Loos, the marquis d' Humières with Hellemmes, Turenne with Fives. Fifteen regiments invested the city. In 1708, when the allies could take again Lille, Hellemmes was filled up by troops of Eugene of Savoy when this winner of Boufflers carried the line of his army to Fretin and left with Annappes. Lastly, peace returned thanks to the Villars marshal. Into 1775, the surroundings of Hellemmes were transformed into a vast camp where the count d' Artois (Charles X) could come to attend the army maneuvers.Àpartir of the April 20th 1792, France enters little by little in war with all the Europe. Mid-August, the borders of North and the East are crossed. In September, Tourcoing and Orchies are occupied. The Battle of Valmy, the September 20th, and the resistance of Lille, of the September 26th to the October 8th, reverse the course of the war. On 64.332 books of allowance for occupation of Hellemmes by the Austrians solicited near the departmental administration, only 16.083 books are granted, provided the municipality presents the proof to have provided its quota of national guards. This proof was apparently easy to bring: after the proclamation of the “Fatherland in danger”, thirty and one Hellemmois had left like volunteers “to defend the Republic”.
The patriotism of the inhabitants is not questioned of it by a member of the popular Company of Lille which denounces “a cutting off made by Hellemmois to help the Austrians” and requires of the military authorities to destroy it. The charge involves de facto an inspection. The report/ratio of the director of the fortifications of Lille notes that, in fact, this cutting off reinforces the defense of Lille but should have been built with more art while being pressed on the village; its length of thirty-five measuring apparatuses, insufficient if one considers what it would have been necessary to do to circumvent the place of Lille, brings a certain utility. In September 1792, Lille is bombarded. The archduchess Marie Christine, sister of Marie Antoinette and wife of Albert of Saxony-Teschen comes in Hellemmes “to enjoy the horrors in person ordered by the Emperor”. According to the writer Rough-hew, “his sanguinary heart had to be satisfied: fire was sharper in its presence, and its satellites still not being able to answer its impatient cruelty, drew some flights with cold balls because the load became less long. She wanted to see the appalling effect of the bombs of the weight of 500 pounds: two mortars burst and put in parts thirty six men who surrounded the infernal battery”.
The February 22nd 1814, the Theilmann Prussian sees his walk on Paris delayed because of fixings with Menin and Hellemmes. 1815 mark the return of the Monarchy. The hardening of the mode with the Polignac ministry obliges Charles X to flee. Louis Philippe becomes king (after having been general lieutenant of the kingdom).
The war of 1870 has also its victims: Emile Dumoulin, sergeant, as well as the soldiers Charles Delobel and François Dumez.
First World War
At the beginning of the Occupation, very severe measurements, not answering the laws of the war, were taken. With Lezennes, Wambrechies, Marcq-in-Barœul, Hellemmes, three hundred women and young girls who had refused to work were struck, cravachées, held locked up several days without eating in buildings deprived of any means of sitting down and of resting.The commander of the Schrank place wrote with the municipality of Halluin: “Introduced measurements are only one beginning, and each day, there will be more severe measurements, until our goal is reached, there is only one will, and it is the will of the German military authority. ”
In January 1915, the city is struck of a fine of 350.000 francs under pretext that at the time of engagements on October 4th of the civilians would have made fire on the German troops. The investigations carried out at the time did not prove the veracity of the advanced facts. In March 1916, an interned Russian with Hellemmes by the Germans was so violently struck with the chest with blows of stick and gun of rifle that it was killed out of it at once. The inhabitants cotisèrent themselves to raise a monument to him carrying the following inscription: “With Mr. Thimothée Saccharof, soldier with the 149e regiment of Russian infantry, deceased in Hellemmes the March 13rd 1916, at age the 38 years. ” The August 12th of the same year, a column of young workers of which ten Hellemmois is destroyed in Wavrin at the time of an air attack. At the end of the year, twenty Hellemmois are dawning fourteen of prison to have refused to work for the enemy. Joseph Hentges protests; the November 17th, it is condemned to five days of prison. Oscar Fanyau, former mayor, is also imprisoned with the citadel where he dies the April 28th of the following year. The November 20th 1917, Joseph Hentges is imprisoned once again for refusal to obey: he had protested against the forced incorporation of young people in the civil battalions of occupation occupied to work near a bridge between Armentières and Carvin. Let us recall that, on March 1st, the Germans removed the bells of the Saint-Denis church. The November 11th 1918, the Armistice is signed.
Victims of the bombardment of the August 12th 1918 with Wavrin
- Eugenie Branswyck, 18 years
- Deronde, 19 years
- Rose, 17 years
- Henri Doige, 19 years
- Henri Delos
- Louis Dewiere, 18 years
- Maurice Honore, 17 years
- Theophilus Senior, 17 years
- Arthur Couvet, 18 years
- Houze,
Victims of the April 12th 1918
- Berthe Lampaert, 16 years
- Henriette Virleux born Decottignies, 57 years
- Jules Dewas, 21 years
- Charles Dewas, 17 years
- Pierre Hellebaut, 47 years
- Jean-Baptiste Lautem, 54 years
- Alice Domis, 12 years
- German Taillieu, 13 years
- Louis-Joseph Lemort, 59 years
- Marie-Louise Petyt born Vandaele, 25 years.
During this conflict, the mayors of France did everything to limit the requirements of the occupant and to soften (if one can employ this word) the living conditions of their managed, sometimes with their own detriment. It is it should be noted that no mayor was the subject of lawsuit for agreement with the enemy.
Two British soldiers were buried in Hellemmes:
- lieutenant Albert Hazell, dead the July 10th 1918 (number 21017)
- the pilot Harry Mechem, prisoner of war, dead the May 28th 1918.
Second world war
The Second world war bursts in 1939. Since 1940, Hellemmes suffers from the occupation, of course, but also of the bombardments. The 10 and May 11th 1941, towards 15:50, a flotilla flies over Lille, Hellemmes and Ronchin: fifteen bombs fall on Hellemmes; with 23:30, alert news: the bombardment, by successive waves, will last fifty minutes. Two thousand three hundred bombs of five hundreds and thousand kilograms, incendiary bombs, torpedes fall. One will count hundred eighty-four dead with Lille, Annoy-Thumesnil and Marcq-in-Barœul, thirty-four in Hellemmes. The bodies of Hellemmois will be deposited in the factory Yon, street Faidherbe. For Hellemmes, one will count six hundred bombs having destroyed or having damaged thousand two hundred houses.As of the call of the General de Gaulle, the Résistance is organized. Many of our compatriots are stopped, off-set, controlled. The May 30th 1940 with 21:30, it is the first allied bombardment aiming at the factory of Fives and the Ground mount.
The June 27th 1941, the July 5th, even objective (twenty-eight bombs). The July 6th with 14:25, even objective (thirty bombs). The February 24th 1942, seventeen prisoner are transferred from Lille to Huy (Belgium), of which Joseph Hentges, shot the April 14th 1942 at the height of Green-Gallant with Marquette. It is temporarily buried with the airfield of this commune close to the Dillies farm. The October 9th 1942, new bombardment.
The September 11th 1942, a raid of Juif S is carried out in the cities of North and the Pas-de-Calais. The prisoners made in Lille and in its suburbs are conveyed for a siding with Hellemmes. Convoy X must leave on Malines (Belgium) then Auschwitz where it arrives the September 17th. From the five hundred and twenty victims of North, only eight men returned. But let us return to the train whereas it is still in Hellemmes. The railwaymen present, taking all the risks, push which a man, which a child, who a woman, propose shovels, buckets, brushes (so that they make pretense be occupied workers). But it was necessary to find complicities downtown. Pasteur Nick had an extraordinary influence on the primarily Protestant population of the district. Those which could escape were dispersed in all the department. At the same time, the Stahl abbot saves forty children whom it places in various religious establishments. In spite of the scarcity of this type of resistance, this fact remains far from known. It is true that the names of the generous rescuers were not revealed with tracked people.
November 8th 1942 with 12:10, attacks air factory of Fives and its surroundings (hundred sixty-six bombs). The December 6th, even objective (a hundred and seventy-five bombs on the workshops and the railways, twenty-six bombs on the powerplant). The January 13rd 1943 with 14:25, the company of Fives Lille is still aimed (the deposit); two hundred and sixty and one bombs fall from the company the street Raspail. Six railwaymen of Hellemmes will be condemned to died (and carried out in the fort of Seclin the June 7th 1944) by the occupant to have taken part in the sabotage of a railway, which would have given place to the massacre of Ascq in the night of April 1st 1944. The May 10th 1944, news attacks (twenty-five bombs) and with 23:30 (thousand six hundred bombs). A certain number of planes falls Ci, from there, the bodies of twenty-five allied aviators are found on the roof of houses; many buildings are destroyed, of which the house of Doctor Decousser where many civilians had taken refuge. The June 22nd at 7 p.m., still a bombardment which completes the destruction of the deposit of the station of Fives and the district of the Ground mount. One will count hundred thirty-five dead.
During this conflict, two hundred eighty-two houses will be destroyed on Hellemmes because of the bombardments. The unloading takes place the June 6th 1944.
The Release of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais is due to the following operations:
- the second army corps Canadian, after having crossed the Sum with Bridge-Rémy pushes towards Hesdin, whereas the third division of infantry follows the coast. The September 4th, the ninth brigade of the third division goes up towards Montreuil-sur-Mer and Boulogne-sur-Mer.
- the second British army, divided into two columns, separates into two with Saint-Pol.-on-Ternoise: the first part moves on Saint-Omer, the second towards Béthune, Tourcoing. The second column passes to Arras, Douai, Villeneuve-with Ascq.
- the first army American, after being last close to Saint-Quentin, is divided into three: the first column moves towards Valencian Cambrai and , the second towards Caudry and Quesnoy, the third towards Maubeuge.
In the municipal files six victims of a last bombardment are counted, but nothing indicates that this one took place on our city.
Hellemmes was disaster victim with nearly 55%. Two hundred eighty-two houses were completely destroyed, two thousand ninety-five damaged buildings. Two hundred people were killed, several wounded hundreds.
The districts of the Barrier and the Center were more especially touched (when the Americans started to bombard on Fives, the bombs fell to the cemetery); the streets had become impracticable, without water, neither gas, nor electricity.
The schools were demolished but could be returned to their use as of on October 1st 1945. With the December 31st 1945, two hundred houses had been repaired.
The group of the Barrier which, at the beginning of 1945, did not count any more any inhabitant, caught up with in end of the same year more than three thousand hearts.
Victims of the bombardments (killed)
Wounded: Ca 274By decree n° 48-1434 of the September 16th 1948, Hellemmes is quoted with the order of the Army with the mention “Town of 14.140 inhabitants, on the territory of which important iron-foundries and textile are installed, was tested hard by many bombardments of allied aviation. In spite of its sufferings, the Hellemmoise population forever lost its faith in France and took a big part with the fight for the Release of the national territory. ” This quotation comprises the attribution of the Military Cross with Palm.
The decline of the companies is obvious:
Many victims of this conflict, let us quote (martyrs hellemmois quoted in the special issue of the Voice of North of May 2005):
Shot
Some of these martyrs are quoted in the list above.
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Jules Beulques. Born the March 7th 1903 in Lille. Decree the August 13rd 1943 in its residence, locked up with Loos until the June 21st 1944. Died in Liesburg the March 15th 1945. Named second lieutenant by decision of the commission of joined together homologation the July 11th 1945.
- Jean Marie Boda. Born the January 7th 1923 in Hellemmes. Decree the June 22nd 1944, locked up with Loos. Deportee without judgment for anti-allemandes activities in Horanienbourg, Kochendorf then Hemisronn. Driven back towards Dachau during the allied advance. Died on April 1st 1945.
- Maurice Carniaux. Principal, decree on October 1st 1943. It organized executives of groups of resistance and many clandestine meetings. Stopped by the Gestapo, he died the November 24th 1944 with Groos-Rosen (High Silesia).
- Georges Debarge. Born the March 16th 1897 in Lille. Decree like resistant. Died in Loos because of ill treatment the October 25th 1943.
- Pierre Delmas. See origin of the street which bears its name.
- Raymond Desablens. Born the December 29th 1897 in Hellemmes, employee with the company of Fives. Decree the November 2nd 1942 and locked up with Loos until the January 27th 1944. Internee with Sterwegen, Groos Strelitz then Groos Rosen. Supposed dead.
- Rene Descamps. Born the February 8th 1906 in Lille. Fitter the SNCF. Decree the November 2nd 1943 like pertaining to the movement Voice of North. Internee with Groos Rosen of the January 27th 1944 with its death the November 22nd 1944.
- Eugene Dubruille. Born the November 12th 1913 in Hellemmes. Riveter. Decree the March 8th 1943 like FTPF. Shot on June 1st 1943 in Mans where he worked temporarily, although Hellemmois.
- Paul Dombrowski. See origin of the street which bears its name.
- Joseph Hentges. Former mayor of Hellemmes; a street bears its name.
- Georges Smets. Militant of the free trade union to Workshops the SNCF, adheres in 1932 to the CGTU and the Communist party. Secretary of the Friends of the USSR. Decree the September 18th 1943 street of the Mill with Roubaix. A few days later, its family received the news of her death. Repatriate the May 9th 1945.
- Arthur Winckier. Born the November 21st 1920 in Lille. Engraver. Deportee in Germany for STO the December 8th 1942, interned with Dachau. Died the January 25th 1944 with Haustetten.
Buried foreign soldiers with Hellemmes
Twenty-five aviators all, almost Australia NS, shot down on Hellemmes are buried in the cemetery on two lines of twelve numbered tombs, at the end of the alley of the soldiers of 1914-1918. Pasteur Nick gives exonerated. The ceremony was organized by Misters Dandois, Brulin, Blervaque (assistant with the mayor), Marchand (city council man).- Richard William Ash
- Arthur Bennett
- George Bennett
- Hubert Edwin Botting
- Raymond Herbert Boulton
- John Henry Brown
- Hugh Donald Campbell
- Ivan Chapple
- B.F. Cody, body transferred to Annappes
- Harry Ronald Crout
- Sidney Albert Edwards
- Herbert William Reid Fergusson
- Erlliot Fullerton
- Harold Grant
- Brian Gordon Grasby
- William Stanley Hancock
- George John Hill
- Douglas Hislop
- Bertram Stephen Longhust
- Walter Thomas Peters
- Léonard Edgard Pringle
- Refusals Harvey Ryder
- W.A. Slade
- John Francis Tucker
- Kevin Campbell Waight
There are also two buried unknown German soldiers.
Means of communication
The small railroad of Lille with Saint-Amand
July 11th, 1886, the Municipal council of CYSOING expressed the wish to prolong to LANNOY and Lille the railway line of Saint-Amand Water. In order to avoid dual employment of the lines, the terminus was fixed at Hellemmes. August 28th, 1891, the concession of the line was granted to the Company of the Economic Railroads of North (with the help of a guarantee of 32 000,00 francs) by the General advice for one 60 years duration, the building site having to be put in building site before one year, and to be in exploitation in the three years. June 12th, 1892, an order of the prefect submits the project to investigation of public utility. The Members of the Commission were to meet for the first time on June 18th, 1892. This Commission included/understood 9 members: Jules SIROT (Appointed and General adviser), TRIBOURDEAUX (General adviser and director of a thread-making factory inhabitant of Lille), Felix DEHAU (Mayor of Bouvines), DAVAINE (To advise District, farmer with St Amand), MIDDLE-CLASS MAN (Mayor of Sainghin in Mélantois), BONDUEL (President of the Company of the Farmers of North), DESMONS (Mayor of Cysoing, Doctor of medicine), Nestor BULTEAU (Mayor of Rumegies, farmer) and Seraph MASQUELIER (Mayor of Aix in Pévèle, farmer) The project subjected to investigation of public utility makes begin the line at the station from LECELLES, and follows the secondary road until CYSOING; the way forks then to join the station of CYSOING and follows the railway line until Bouvines, it again skirts the secondary road until the entry of LEZENNES. that it circumvents to be connected to the station of Hellemmes, Hellemmes which could only be delighted to be with the terminus of the line. The file, transmitted to the Public Ministry of Labor in August 1893, the decree of declaration of public utility is promulgated on August 28th (Official journal of September 22nd, 1893). The line, including/understanding only one way, with a length of approximately 20 704,705 meters along the secondary road 19,5 591,67 meters along the local roads and 7 131,675 meters in deviation, is a total of 33 438,05 meters. It serves approximately 37.000 users including 12.043 for Saint Amand, 3.315 for CYSOING and 5.428 for Hellemmes. The expenditure estimated for construction is assembled to 53.000 francs to the kilometer. The single track of 1 meter of width and opened with the services travellers, goods and transport. Ten cars composes the train which can thus reach a speed of 20 km/h. The line is opened to the travellers, goods and transport. Traction is done by engines with vapor.
The table of the tariffs appears rather picturesque: Travellers first classifies: (covered cars, closed in double glazing and stuffed benches) 0,075 F Travellers second classifies: (covered and closed cars, panes out of simple glass) 0,055 F Children of less than 3 years Free Children from 3 to 7 years 1 place distinct 2 children, in the same compartment will be able to occupy the place only of one traveller More than 7 years normal tariff Dogs 0,020 F Oxen, cows, horses,… 0,10 F Calves, pigs 0,04 F Sheep, goats,… 0,03 F The tariffs above are given " with the head and the kilomètre". With regard to the goods, the tariffs are " with the ton and the kilomètre" At high speed Oysters, fresh fish, food products,… 0,45 F
At low speed: 1st class Alabaster, weapons, coffee, game, spirits,… 0,20 F 2nd class Alcohols out of barrels, bituminizes, sweet chestnuts, rice, sugar,… 0,16 F 3rd class Slate, corn, lime, plaster, grains, salt, molasses,… 0,12 F 4th class Clay, beets, bricks, paving stones, marl,… 0,10 F
Hays, fodder, straws and other goods not weighing more than 500 kilos to the cubic meter, by coach and with the kilometer: 0,65 F Cars of undertaking, containing one or more coffins, even price and conditions that a car with 4 wheels, 2 funds and 2 benches: 0,80 F Coffin transported in a compartment isolated 0,40 F or in the express trains: 1,20 F Tariffs Ci above do not include/understand the tax due to the State.
The tram
June 7th, 1874 circulated the first cars tractor drawn by horses between the station of Lille and the Place of Tourcoing (Place of the Leclerc Marshal). The joint grid system of Lille had occurred. In 1877, the Company of the Trams of the Department of North, dealer of the trams of Lille, considers the creation of five new lines of horse trams between the station of Lille and Hellemmes, TOURCOING, ROUBAIX, HAUBOURDIN and Lome. The first tram line tractor drawn by horses is of 1894; it connects the station of Lille to Hellemmes (line G) The electrification will start in 1900 with the line T parks of Lille - Hellemmes by the Ground Mount and the street Chanzy; traction by trolley. New extensions are very quickly made necessary by the growing urbanization of the agglomeration towards RONCHIN, MONS IN BARŒUL, the MADELEINE, LAMBERSART, WATTIGNIES, HOLY ANDRE, QUESNOY on DEULE, WAMBRECHIES. The war of 1914 - 1918 stop public transport completely. August 20th, 1926, whereas the exploitation had begun again only for a few years, the town of Lille and the Company of the Electric Trams of Lille and its Suburbs (T.E.L.B.) sign a convention. This text granted a new concession having to expire on December 31st, 1955. Since 1932, the first buses appeared. Transport in commune knew a great influence during the Second world war because of the fuel restrictions. The line T is removed in 1945: the destruction of the metallic bridge of the Ground Mount, provisional since 1918, prevents the exploitation of this line. In 1938, the tram line electric G (station of Lille - Hellemmes) amalgamates with the line B (Station of Lille Porte of Béthune - Haubourdin) in only one line B (Door of Béthune - Hellemmes). In 1945, the line T is removed. At the Ground Mount was located a metallic bridge (provisional since 1918) destroyed by the bombardments, and just replaced by a footbridge allowing only the passage of pedestrians. This line had thus become not exploitable towards Hellemmes. December 31st, 1955, at the limit of the concession, the movable goods (115 trams, 20 buses, tools, stocks, etc) remain the property of the T.E.L.B. The real goods return to the town of Lille which, moreover, exerted its right to repurchase the trams. The Industrial General Company of Transport (C.C.I.T., subsidiary of the T.E.L.B.) had the concession on a purely provisional basis until March 31st, 1960. As of the end of 1956, an Intercommunity association of exploitation was created. By decision of the Minister of Interior Department dated February 4th, 1960, this organization was authorized to exert the power conceding for the exploitation of the joint grid system of Lille and its suburbs. The town of Lille gave on a purely gracious basis the movable installations and buildings which had been fallen to him of the T.E.L.B to continue the exploitation of the network. By convention of March 25th, 1960 (and the endorsements of the November 13rd, 1961 and December 1st, 1962), the G.G.I.T taken the concession for one 20 years duration. It is at that time that the buses appeared the best means of modernization of the network. In 1960, the company had a hundred trams and 64 buses of various manufacture. In 1966, the line B is removed. Begin the time of the buses.
September 30th, 1968, the Council of the Community, eager to pass in addition to the urban perimeters, wished the unification of the various joint grid systems. April 24th, 1970, he asked for to the prefect this definition of urban perimeter. A ministerial decree of March 23rd, 1972 gave satisfaction to the C.U.D.L.
Buses
The subway
The establishment of a subway in the area inhabitant of Lille was not an novel idea: already in 1924, a project proposed to connect Lille to Roubaix and Tourcoing. The layout of the system of subway such as we know it now rises from the decree of the bearing April 11th, 1969 creation of a public corporation of installation of the new city of Lille East (Villeneuve d' Ascq). The polemic between tradesmen who did not want a subway in open trench and the public authorities lasted several years. The preliminary works, on the territory of Hellemmes, started in 1978 with the removal of factory CAPON, then the installation of the place of the same name: the Hentgès place was retained like surface of storage. The adoption of the system VALLEY (light automatic Vehicle) put Hellemmes at a few minutes of the center of Lille, that it is for the needs for the normal life or the not very legal uses (provisioning of drug, for example). Several time, the Urban community of Lille evoked the situation of the tradesmen of Fives and Hellemmes. It was ready to compensate those which would have appeared really injured. This assumption of responsibility could be effective only after judgment of the Administrative court as for the share of responsibility and the amount for repair. October 16th, 1980, 5 investigations were deposited, followed from 48 others during the following months. July 15th, 1981, the streets P. Legrand in Lille and r. Salengro in Hellemmes were given in double direction. The first section of the line N° 1 (which stopped Place of the Republic in Lille) was inaugurated in April 1983, in the presence of Pierre MAUROY, Prime Minister, and of Arthur NOTEBART, President of the Urban community of Lille.