Quaregnon

Quaregnon (in Picardy Cwargnon ) is a common French-speaking of Belgium located in Walloon region in the Province of Hainaut.

Brood in the middle of the Coal-mining, the locality of Quaregnon divides itself in three parts:

  • Quaregnon-south;

  • Quaregnon-center;
  • Quaregnon-shore.

It is in Quaregnon that was adopted in March 1894 the charter founder of Belgian socialism.

Etymology

Historians gave each other much evil to explain this name. It was claimed that the term comes from a Latin answer Quare not (“Why not? ”). Interpretation is risky. A historian is more precise. Quaregnon appears in the diplomas of 965, in the form Quaterlesia , Quaternio still quoted in 1018, Quaringnon (1071), Quaregio (1110 and 1119), Quareum (1168), Quarinou (1195) and later Quarinum , Quarignon , Karegnon , Karegnun .

Towards 686, an oratory, dedicated to Saint Quentin, was high in this place, by the care of holy Ghislain and especially of holy Waudru to which belonged the village. One also declares that the name means “career”, “pierraie”. It would come from the Celtic , will cara keyr , “stone” and would be the analog of Carrare, here city of the white marble, Carnec, Carignan, etc

It seems more logical to examine the oldest forms, because they appear to us to give the explanation of this term which enters the Latin number quater or quartet : “four”.

If one adopts Quaterlesia , that meant the “four places” ( loca , lesia ). Quaregio seems a contraction of Latin quartet regiones , the “four areas or places, hamlets”. Quaternio is low-Latin and means “assembly of four things”, whether they are hamlets, villages or brooks. However, Quaregnon with the Middle Ages was divided into four parts:

  • in the South: under the City or Moriauville, currently Marionville, the villa of Moreau, Morel or of Marion, diminutive of Marie, hamlet called also Mauvinage Malvinage (XVIe century), the place of the winage, kind of granting of one named Malus or drove it winage;

  • in the Center: Assonchleville (Aisunvillo 1179) which means the villa of the medium or the villa of Aisunus;
  • towards North: Montleville (Summo villa and Summavilla (1199 - 1240), the city of the top, the height, which one made Mons city, name which is not found in any old and even modern document;
  • in the extreme South: common communes or pastures where the village of Pâturages was established. A title quoted towards this place Altiville (1408) which would be perhaps the translation of Latin viola villa, altissima villa, the high villa, located at the highest place.

Lastly, there are also four rivers which crosses Quaregnon:

  • the rieu of Wasmes or Radde water, the water which runs quickly;
  • the rieu of the Heart;
  • Richon, rieu of Quaregnonchiel (1199) or of the Bituminous , towards Jemappes;
  • finally the Hatred, in which the three first are thrown.

One could thus wonder whether Quaregnon does not mean “the four rivers”.

From the point of view of the place names, Quaregnon is very interesting to study. That one judges some: Bruille or Flaring ( Brulium 1199) or wood marshy (Latin Italian brolium , broglia ); the field of Castillon points out a small castle; Courbelette, place where a street, a brook make a curve; Campiau towards Flénu, small field, it is there that took place the last act of the Bataille of Jemappes in 1792; Bridge in Bourdeau (1407); the Cross SaintEtton (1407); the Castle Devil, ruins which one believes to allot to the old oratory of Saint-Quentin, high at the end of the 7th century; field of Baroncouture; Esquigne and Eskielette (1379), fields which gave their names to two very old coal mining.

History

It is seen that this large village, populeux of Coal-mining, has more than one characteristic. However, its history is not rich in outstanding facts. Quaregnon was formerly the Holy-Waudru property of the chapter of . The count de Hainaut, as abbot, had one the third of the seigneuriaux rights. The abbey of Saint-Ghislain had the collation of the cure and enjoyed jointly the dîme with the priest. One found there the seigniory of the Flight, known as of Lambrechies and the stronghold of Briançon. This commune obtained a charter-law in XIVe century. The hereditary town hall of Quaregnon is mentioned in XIIIe century. It belonged at the beginning of XIVe century the family of Carnières, which sold it with the chapter of Holy-Waudru in 1321. This one engaged it on several occasions.

Gilles or Gillion de Carnières, rider, lord of Carnières in 1308, wire of Gossuin. He was owner of the town hall of Quaregnon, in 1309. In March 1330, it was not any more because the Count de Hainaut, Guillaume buys with his heirs the town hall to Quaregnon.

In 1894, Emile Vandervelde, Belgian Politician, proposes to the basic ideological text of the Parti Working Belgian (P.O.B.), the Charte of Quaregnon. August 23rd, 1914 24e IH of the German imperial army passed by the weapons 66 civilians and destroyed 137 houses bit of the German Atrocités made at the beginning of the invasion.

Famous characters

Clubs of sport

  • Site of the UBCF Quaregnon, club of tennis shoe

Twinnings

External bond

  • Official site of Quaregnon
  • Center of Quaregnon on Google Map

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