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Chimay (in Walloon Chimai ) is a French-speaking city of Belgium located in Walloon region in the Province of Hainaut.

Chimay is located on the calcareous Tape of the Calestienne. They are grounds favourable with the culture, cleared early, well before the monastic time. Chimay is indeed located in a large clearing, opened in the of the Ardennes Forêt.

More in the south, the clearing was increased at the time monastic, towards the poorer grounds of the northern repercussion of the plate of Rocroi; These grounds were especially reserved for the breeding and poor cultures, like rye. With XVIIIe and XIXe centuries, farms created by individual contractors continued these clearings, encouraged by the State.

Located in the administrative district of Thuin, it was born from the fusion of 14 old communes, on January 1st, 1977.

In 2003, Chimay counted 9.871 inhabitants.

The city shelters the castle of princes de Chimay and collegial Saints Pierre and Paul. Not far from there the lake of Virelles is, of a great ornithological interest. But Chimay is mainly known thanks to the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Scourmont, near (with Forges), where monks cistercians Trappists manufacture Bière and Fromage S.

The beer of Chimay, red, blue or triple is obtained by a process of high Fermentation (with more than 20 °C) and undergoes the one second fermentation out of bottle. It is not pasteurized.

Chimay is twinned with Conflans-Holy-Honorine (France) which is located at the confluence of the Oise, river whose source is in Chimay. The river of the White Eau also takes its source with Chimay.

Local curiosities

  • the castle of the Princes de Chimay
  • the Lake Virelles
  • the source of the Oise
  • the abbey Trappist (brewery and cheese dairy)
  • the road circuit of Chimay

Etymology

Old forms: 1050 Cimai , 1070 Cimaco

According to Jules Herbillon, Cimaco would mean property of (suffix - acum ) *Cimus or *Cimos (Gallic anthroponyme). According to other sources, the name of Chimay would find its origin in the Celtic word coimos meaning “pretty, pleasant”.

History

Economy

Personalities born in Chimay

External bonds

  • the regional gate
  • Site of the municipal authorities
  • Site of the Union of the Cities and Communes of Wallonia asbl.
  • Site of the brewery
  • Site of the Castle of the Prince and the Princess of Chimay
  • College Saint-Joseph de Chimay
  • Royal Athenaeum of Chimay
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