Lobbes

Lobbes (in Walloon Lobe ) is a common French-speaking of Belgium located in Walloon region in the Province of Hainaut.

It is located on the Sambre.

Sections of commune

Bienne-lez-Happart, Lobbes, Mount-Holy-Genevieve and Sars-la-Buissière.

Major inheritance and curiosities

The collegial one which bears the name of Saint-Ursmer founded at the 9th century (the oldest church of Belgium), the Collégiale Saint-Ursmer of Lobbes concerns the major Patrimoine of Wallonia.

Portelette (XVIe century).

Lobbes is crossed by a tourist tram which joined Thuin.

Etymology

For certain specialists, the name of Lobbes finds its origin in the term Laubacum meaning brook, others see a Germanic origin there approaching the term lauh-baki generally meaning brook of wood.

History

Lobbes is a commune whose origin goes back to the Moyen-âge since its history merges with that of the monastery Bénédictin which had been founded there in 654 by Saint Landelin, a brigand converted with the Christianisme by Saint Aubert, bishop of Cambrai. However Landelin was downward of the king Mérovée and its invaluable ascent was going certainly to help it to build the monastery which was going to become the cradle of the city that we know today. Indeed its benefactors were to be of high line so that hardly two centuries after its foundation the aforementioned monastery became not only one seedbed of scientists and saints but also the center of an immense field of which made the famous mention polyptyque one of Lobbes (a document compiled by the Cambric bishop on the initiative of Lothaire II in 868 - 869). Besides it is known today that the hundred septante-quatre villages which composed the field had been given to the abbey by the sovereigns of the time and in particular by the king of the Francs Dagobert and by Pépin of Herstal says the Old man. Charlemagne founded a school with Lobbes in 776, whose rich person library was worth at the town of be called “Lobbes the Erudite one”. Saint Landelin was not the only great figure of the abbey of Lobbes: Saint Ursmer assumed of it the load of 689 with 713 and the collegial door today still its name. In 888, the abbey passed under the authority of the évêché of Liege.

During century the Abbatiale was destroyed on several occasions, but the funerary church of the monks located on the hill close to the abbey, Carolingian time, was preserved and became then Collégiale.

Lobbes was in particular besieged by the Magyars in 955.

At the 15th century the prosperity of the abbey was so much put at evil by the wars that the Chanoines were obliged to leave the place to go to take refuge with Binche. However the monastery Benedictine continued his mission until the May 11th 1794, date on which the republican troops, carried out by the general Charbonnier, invaded it and reflect there fire during a plundering which lasted three days. The monks had to flee in Germany, whereas Napoleon granted the property of the goods of the abbey to Charbonnier.

They were not the last vicissitudes of the commune because in 1940 and 1944, this one have to undergo bombardments causing of extensive damage and many victims.

Economy

They are the small craftsmen who from time immemorial constituted the screen of socio-economic fabric of an area which always attracted an extremely many population but that its agricultural resources were not always able to nourish. Besides this lack of resources explains the great poverty of Lobbes which made burst of great disorders the day before the Révolution inhabitant of Li2ege. It was only in 1919 that the commune saw to open a building site of boats which functioned until after the Second world war. Today it is the quality of life of the place which attracts there not only one avid population of calm and of healthy air but also of the enthusiast tourists by the beauty of its natural and architectural sites.

External bonds

Site of the commune of Lobbes
Holy Ursmer de Lobbes
the Collegial one of Lobbes
G' lobbes Trotters
Lobbes August 23rd, 1914
the Garden of Folcuin

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