Saint-Amand-the-Water

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

Its inhabitants is called Amandinois.

Denominations

According to the Web site of the city, Saint-Amand, in addition to the name of Elnon , dating from the time mérovingienne, also bore the name of Saint-Amand in Pévèle (of Latin in pabula , meaning “in country of pastures”), without precision as for the time of this denomination nor at his exact duration.

Malta-Brown, in illustrated France (1882) gives him the name of Saint-Amand , while already mentioning the existence of an alternative denomination Saint-Amand-the-Water .

The common one officially took the name of Saint-Amand-the-Water on May 16th, 1962, following a decree of the previous May 10th published with the Official journal on May 15th.

Geography

The Saint-Amand-the-Water site corresponds to small sandy hills near the junction of the Scarpe and the Elnon. Main city of the Flat of Scarpe, it is located at approximately 10 km in the North-West of Valencian (chief town of district), at approximately 35 km in the south-east of Lille (chief town of department and area) and at approximately 20 km in the south of Tournai (Province of Hainaut, Belgium).

Saint-Amand-the-water is almost in the middle of the Regional natural park the Scarpe-Scheldt, which gathers 48 communes (43 000 hectares and 162.000 inhabitants) and joined the Natural park of the Plains of the Scheldt (Province of Hainaut, Belgium), in a Natural park transfontalier of Hainaut.

The House of the Scarpe-Scheldt Regional natural park, head office, is located at Saint-Amand-the-Water.

History

Section drawn from illustrated France , volume III, of Victor Malta-Brown Adolphe (1882)

At the 7th century of our era, it was only one village known under the name of Elnon . Dagobert, this king mérovingien large friend of the clergy, made gift with Amand saint of it. This one, to conquer with the Christian faith the still scattered wild tribes with half in the vast forests of the Flanders, founded a Monastère   there; ; it of it was the first Abbé and its name gave him. Thus was formed, of the village and the monastery, the small town of Saint-Amand. The Abbaye was not long in becoming important, and, under the race carlovingienne, its monastic school enjoyed a great reputation and was attended by a great number of young people who came from good far learning there the reading, grammar and the écriture  ; its celebrity had been worth large richesses  to him; ; but, in 880, the Norman invaders, under the control of their king Bigier and another famous chief named Hasting, were spread along banks of the Scarpe and the the Scheldt. To their approach, one transported in the church of Sainte-Marie of Douai, it to withdraw from the profanation, the body of holy Amand. This body of the one of the first and most famous the Apôtres of Belgium was the object of deep a vénération  ; the people attached a Grand Prix to preserve it, especially since the Lanthaire abbot had made of it the lifting in the year 840, i.e. a hundred and fifty years after the burial of the saint, and that preserved it had been entirely found, which the piety of faithful allotted to a Miracle. The Norman ones plundered and set fire to the abbaye  ; the king Louis III ran, but too late, with the defense of the country, continued the plunderers, reached them close to Saucourt-in-Vimeu and beat them. The monastery of Saint-Amand left his ruines  soon; ; the munificence of the kings and the baron S, the clearing which the monks and the serfs operated returned him soon the richnesses which it had lost, and its prosperity had become so large, which the grateful abbots were first to be granted to the inhabitants of the borough of Saint-Amand of the laws and communal franknesses. In 1340, at the beginning of the war One hundred year old, the count Jean de Hainaut: Malta-brown seems to make a confusion here, allied English, put fire at the abbey and the city, after having massacred of them all the allied inhabitants of king de France, to be avenged for the Bourgeois and the garrison which had devastated its good town of Hasnon. In 1477, the city being declared prematurely, with died of Charles Bold the, for Louis XI, the duchess Marie of Burgundy made it invest and ransack. Become French, the prince of Ligne seized some, in 1521, in the name of the happy rival of François I {{er}}, the emperor Charles-Quint   ; the French made from there main again under Louis XIII   ; finally, in 1667, it was definitively yielded to France by the treaty of Utrecht.

In 1793, Dumouriez, after having evacuated the Belgian territory, establishes its general headquarter with Saint-Amand  ; it made there stop the police chiefs that the Convention had sent to him. It is of there too that it left to pass to the enemy and to tarnish by this inconceivable treason the glorious bay-trees of Valmy.

Its abbey, rebuilt in the middle of the 17th century, remained until the Révolution   ; the church had been partly rebuilt in 1634   ; the traveller admires of it still today the hurled tower, which is used of public Horloge and Beffroi. It is built out of sandstone and white stone, carved base with the faîte  ; its height is approximately 100 meters, and one arrives at the top by a narrow staircase of 450 steps.

Heraldic

Blasonnement of the traditional weapons of the town of Saint-Amand-the-Water: Sinople
“, with a sword out of stake of money, the guard and the handle of gold, alongside in fasce of two flowers of lily, also of gold. ”

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Parish church Saint Martin's day, rebuilt in 1785

  • Frontage and turn of the old abbey church (classified with the Historic buildings since 1846)
  • Town hall
  • Brewery Bouchart (middle of the 19th century - beginning 20th century)
  • municipal Theater

Hydrotherapy

Hydropathic establishment and mineral, which was worth at the city its possessive phrase. One counts four there sources: the Fountain-Bubble, House-Ruined, the Small-Fountain and the Fountain of the Bishop-D' Arras.

In addition to spring waters, the station is also re-elected for its mud baths to sulfurous odor.

The virtues of the sources were already known Romains, which had built thermal baths on the site. Neglected then abandoned during the the Middle Ages, the sources were “redécouvertes” by the marshal of Boufflers, which made carry out important collecting and renovation work of water.

Economy

Economy in 1882

Malta-Brown raised, in 1882, in the article of illustrated France devoted to Saint-Amand, a Aciérie, sugar refineries, a factory of nails, a factory of hosiery of Laine and Coton, a factory of chain-cables, a manufacture of Porcelaine, Tannerie S, Distillerie S, Moulin S, Savon neries and oil factories.

It also raised a trade of Chanvre, of and structural timber coal.

To finish, it quoted, on the territory of the commune, a national forest of “3.400 hectares”, that is to say more than the current surface of the commune. Perhaps did this surface include forest sections established on the territories of one or more other communes?

Economy in 1964

A famous encyclopedic dictionary quoted, in 1964:

  • industry metallurgical (rolling, wiredrawing, boiler making, chains of anchor, galvanization, engines);
  • Textile industry (hosiery);
  • manufactures ceramics and Faïencerie;
  • Tannery.

The faience manufacture of Saint-Amand had been founded in the neighborhoods of 1740 by Pierre Joseph Fauquez, which came from Tournai. The trademark of earthenware of Saint-Amand is symbolized by a complex interlacing of initial name of the founder and that of the city (P.F. and S.A.).

Economy in 2006

Personalities related to the commune

Files

  • parochial Registers and of civil statue since:

  • genealogical Examinations:
  • municipal Deliberations since:

Twin towns

See too

  • Area catchment of the Scheldt

  • Armorial of the Common communes of North
  • of Giant Saint-Amand-the-Water North
  • Station
  • of North
  • Saint-Amand pH (female Basketball - LFB)

External bonds

  • Official site of the town of Saint-Amand-the-Water

  • Official site of the Regional natural park the Scarpe-Scheldt
  • Saint-Amand-the-Water on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Saint-Amand-the-Water on the site of INSEE
  • Saint-Amand-the-Water on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Saint-Amand-the-Water on a chart of France and communes bordering Saint-Amand-the-Water
  • Plane on Mapquest

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