Sivry (Belgium)

Sivry (in Walloon Chévri ) is a section of the common Belgian of Sivry-Rancid, located in Walloon region in the Province of Hainaut.

It was a commune with whole share before the fusion of the communes of 1977.

It is the administrative center of Sivry-Rancid.

Geography

The village counts a little more than 7.000 hectares. This commune of the Boot of Hainaut, frontier with France, is closer to the French cities of Avesnes-on-Helpe, Solre-the-Castle and of Maubeuge that of Mons, chief town of the province. In addition, the towns of Beaumont and Chimay are the Belgian cities closest to the village. Near the commune, is also located the Departmental Park of the Valley Jolly, one of the more big lakes of Europe. Splendid landscape scrap-metal which proposes many hikes…

Some distances

History

Sivry is the administrative center of the communal entity of Sivry-Rancid, strong of 5 villages. 1550 inhabitants remain in this roomy locality since it counts 2.287 hectares of surface. Chevrotins (as are called the inhabitants of Sivry are happy in their village. One does not say: “Did I deny K' Chévri”? (There is only one Sivry).

The popular tradition wants that the name of “Chévri” comes owing to the fact that there were formerly many goats. The popular blazon designates us besides as “spoil them of Chévri” (goats of Sivry).

Gullied by many the rus which forms Thure, the landscape of Sivry-Rancid contains a rural history rich in events happy or unhappy, anecdotic or legendary. Thus, war 14-18 left many deaths, burnt houses and a devastated church.

Per hour when Belgium became independent, the industry of wood and wool attracted in Sivry nearly 1000 workmen. Wood which made work the sawyers length, clapteurs, makers of ditches, sabot-makers, wet coopers, folders, are always well there. As for the trades, they leave only memories and regrets.

The parochialism perpetrated many legends of which most famous are “Godimus” and “Spoils It of gold”. The anecdotes buckshots, immortalized in the accounts of the local historians, us happy good-naturedness with Sivry with formerly and today.

The oldest document in which Sivry is quoted calls “the will of Holy-Aldegonde” and dates from the 11th century.

During the Middle Ages, there was a seigniory with Sivry which remained until the 17th century.

The Permanent Center of Nature

Located in full nature in a site délicieusement flowered, he proposes to the visitors 2 telescopes, a spectacle of planetarium, an official station of the IRM (Royal Institute of Meteorology) and an office of time with the reception of the Météosat satellite, the sundials and the gardens of plants. In 1967, Scientific Youths create the CPEN (Permanent Center of Study of Nature) which is at the time a asbl. Created in 1967 by Scientific Youths, the CPEN was invested in the fields of astronomy and meteorology. For this purpose, a cupola which shelters a telescope of Newton mounting was built in 1980. Parallel to that, the Center was equipped for the study of meteorology and became an official station of the IRM. In September 1991, the CPEN amalgamated with the Center of Urban Ecology and Geography of Fleurus. Today, the CPEN accommodates the children and the teenagers eager to discover meteorology and astronomy using equipment placed at their disposal while being assisted and being framed by a personnel specialized in each discipline. Meteorology and astronomy particularly motivate the teachers who are increasingly numerous to reserve the Center for one week, a few days or a day in order to take along their pupils there. Other topics such as the ecosystem, geology, the agroalimentary one, water, the area and its landscape, the area and its history,… are also approached the teaching purpose of the CPEN is of: - to create a motivation, an amazement, an irresistible desire of more; - to give the opportunity to the pupils and to students to take a step moreover towards the discovery of the SCIENTIFIC METHOD. In addition to its permanent animations, the Center proposes with the public activities diversified like evenings of observation of the sky, the nights of astronomy, introductory courses to astronomy, the festival of autumn, a mycologic exposure, the festival of mushrooms,…

Museum of Nature

The Museum shelters naturalized animals of Belgium and whole world, collections of fossils, rocks,… You will discover them out of windows but also in dioramas which show you the animals of on our premises in their natural environment. For the school complexes, family,… The educational service proposes various animations adapted to any public. Also animations in your area, your school…

Wood of Heather

To walk while discovering the life of the forest and the practices forestry, such are the goals of the éco-educational path of the Wood of Heather. The path is based on a walk of some 2,5 km in the form of loop. The circuit begins with the surface from reception where the visitor can station in full safety. Various installations also make it possible each and everyone to rest, to sustain itself… On the one hand, this course enables you to discover some 80 woody species by grouping of 5 shrubs. In addition, a series of panels of information reveal you the intervention of the man in the forest by popularizing the various stages of the work of the forest actors, the evolution of the solid mass, the role of Natural Division and Forests and the forestry treatment. Forty nesting boxes for about fifteen ornithological species are also exposed in real situation. Lastly, the shutter “nature conservation in forest medium” is largely approached. All in all, a bucolic escapade where to stroll with wood while learning is a concrete reality. This walk is accessible during the four seasons and offers a different table for each one to you of enters they…

Center André Focant

First center for autistic of Belgium.

Lodging house for 20 handicapped adults mental, moderate, severe and deep, not-workers, autists and psychotics.

Association has as an aim:

  • to lodge nonhard-working adults of the two sexes reached of a moderate, severe and major handicap mental
  • to coordinate the relations between parents, leadership team, doctors, teacher or specialists
  • to take care of the quality of the life and the quality of the assumptions of responsibility therapeutic, educational, teaching, social, necessary for the wellbeing and the evolution of the physical and psychic health of the lodged people

Tourism

  • Town hall
  • Church Sainte-Marie Médiatrice
  • Pierres which turns
  • Rosy Monts
  • Circuits of Thure
  • Musée of the Sivry-Rancid Nature
  • Local Arts center of

Housing

  • Lists with the farm

  • rural Lodgings: - List Joinery

Personalities related to the village

  • Jean-François Gâtelier, burgomaster
  • Marius Deroyer
  • the family Herbecq
  • Annie Debruxelles
  • Gerard Verly

External bonds

  • Site of Sivry-Rancid
  • Site of the Country of the Lakes

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