Marchiennes

Marchiennes is a common French, located in the department of the Northern and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Geography

Marchiennes is located on the Scarpe, river of 112 kilometers which throws in the river the the Scheldt.

It has on its territory beautiful a forest domanial of approximately 800 hectares made up amongst other things of woodland pines and of Chêne S. It accommodates more 110 000 visitors per annum.

In the department of North, Marchiennes is a green lung which occupies a central position. Near the highways A1 and A23 highway, Marchiennes is at 20 minutes of Lille and of Tournai, 15 minutes of Valencian Douai and , 2 hours of Paris and 1:00 of Brussels.

Marchiennes is in the middle of the Regional natural park the Scarpe-Scheldt, the “heart of nature”, important component of the green Trame regional concentrate of natural sites of great ecological value, covering 4 national forests of which that of Marchiennes and the Plaine S alluvial of Scarpe and the Scheldt. Following the agricultural Drainage peripheral and the overdeepening of a peripheral ditch of drainage, this very wet forest formerly suffers from a fall of the tablecloth which in period of dryness threatens the oaks and the Amphibians. Installation of sheeting piles on the ditches of interior drainages to the forest not having produced the anticipated results.

Elpret is a Hameau located at the east of the commune and is crossed by D39 which connects Lallaing to Rosult. The main street of Elpret is the street of the Hamlet which is in fact D39. Some blocks of houses is built there because the zone is very gravitational: indeed, the national forest of Marchiennes is immediately with the north of Elpret.

Rich person historical heritage

Marchiennes is rich of a beautiful historical heritage to which still the vestiges testify to a founded abbey into 630 by Adalbaud, Count of Douai. Holy Rictrude, his wife, Aquitanian Aristocrat of , created in 643 a Monastère doubles including/understanding a community of women and another of men. At the end of the tenth century, there did not remain any trace of the male community except some canons. In 1024, the moniales are replaced by Bénédictins monks. After the disastrous abbatiat of Fulcard de Landas (1103-1115), the Amand abbot of Chastel takes the initiative of an institutional and artistic revival which will last until the end of the twelfth century and to which a rich chartier as well as a various collection of texts hagiographic and historiographic testify.

One penetrates on the place of the abbey by two monumental doors of a great architectural interest, the building of current the Town hall and the Colombier. The pediment of the church Sainte Rictrude is marked republican currency, “Freedom, Égalité, Fraternité”.

Marchiennes was also the theater of one of the last lawsuits of Sorcellerie in France which sent Péronne Goguillon on roughing-hew it in 1679. Since 1991, to entreat this completed time, 30 000 people assist each year, 1st Sunday of October, in famous Cucurbitades, celebrates Courge and Sorcellerie, poetic, cultural festival and envoûtante.

Marchiennes is mentioned in the first sentence of Germinal of Emile Zola (1885), where " the main road of Marchiennes with Montsou, ten kilometers of paving stone cutting all droit" is evoked.

Personalities related to the commune

Birthplace of famous characters of which Jean-Baptiste Juvénal Corbineau, born in Marchiennes on August 1st, 1776, general of empire under Napoleon i which saved the Large army at the time of the Retraite of Russia by discovering the passage of the Bérézina. With his/her two brothers, Constant and Hercules Corbineau, generals of empire, they were called by Napoleon the “Three Horaces” in reference to the Roman Mythologie.
Marchiennes is also the birthplace in 1905 of famous the painter Felix Labisse, related to the movement Surréaliste without adhering to it, known inter alia for his blue Wives.

Administration

Demography

External bonds

http://www.ot-marchiennes.fr Tourist office
http://monsite.orange.fr/ecole-sainte-therese School Holy-Therese
Cucurbitades - Photographs Christophe Tondeux
Marchiennes on the site of the national geographical Institute
Marchiennes on the site of INSEE
Marchiennes on the site of Quid
Localization of Marchiennes on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Marchiennes on Mapquest
Large organ of the Holy church Rictrude de Marchiennes

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