Roucourt

Roucourt is a common French, located in the department of the Northern (59) and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Its inhabitants is called Roucourtois.

Geography

The viilage is located between the town of Lewarde at 2,5 km at the east and that of Cantin at 3 km at the west, with that of Erchin to the south and that of Guesnain in north. On the departmental Road 135.

History

From 1071 to 1191, the Ostrevent is the place of confrontation between the Comté of Flanders and the Comté of Hainaut. The litigious zone corresponds to the mounts Remi saint, on which are camped of the strong castles, like that of Roucourt among others (Villers-with-Hillock, Cantin,…). Finally the castle is destroyed, then come peace, like that of Cantin, it will be used during the 15th century of raw materials for construction of the ramparts as Douai.
After 1815 at the time of the defeat of the Battle of Waterloo, the troops Danish be which occupied Masny and Lewarde, construirent to honor the arrival with the Prince Frederic de Hesse Cassel a Obélisque, which is located in wood at the limit between Roucourt and Lewarde.
At the time of Great War during the battles of Arras and at the end of bloody April in 1917, the red Baron and his flying circus remained with the castle, of which the wooded alley was used as aerodrome. The village paid homage to his/her dead children for France by baptizing certain streets of one of the names being reproduced on the War memorial the which is located on the place of the commune beside the church.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Structure

the Castle, built in 1765 in the Style Louis XVI for Jean François Berenger, police chief general of the pig iron and cast iron of artillery of France, replaces the old castle which was more in north of the village. Since 1790, the field belongs to the family of the Baron Becquet de Megille (then mayor of Douai) which continued to arrange it: The park (registered on the Base Mérimée) which surrounds it includes/understands a Chinese house, old the Pilori of the village and the Colombier. The unit from now on is opened with the public for receptions (marriage, seminar, baptism…).
Some farms of the 18th century and the 19th century century present an interesting character.
the church out of brick goes back to 1883, it is built with the site of the preceding one, but its orientation differs so that the entry is vis-a-vis the place of the village. It is dedicated to Saint Amand, although patron saint of the village is Saint Druon to which the brotherhood of Druon Saint (present before 1750) pays homage by a procession each Whit Monday, i.e. the Journée of solidarity towards the elderly.

Leisure

the commune has of a room for the play of the balk, and a tennis court.
the Sentier of great excursion 121 makes it possible to discover through the boisier field attached to the village the Danish obelisk, and the Tower of the Count d' Hespel located in the Forêt of Lewarde.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of North

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