The Neuville-on-Scheldt

the Neuville-on-Scheldt is a common French, located in the department of the Northern and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Geography

Village on the the Scheldt.

History

years 1890: Jules Margerin transforms the mill on the the Scheldt into powerplant. The Neuville-on-Scheldt will be thus probably one of the first communes of electrified France.
very hard Occupation under the First World War.
1964: the Scheldt is widened to let pass the barges borrowing the channel from large gauge between Valencian and Usinor machines it Dunkirk.

Administration

Philippe Leriche (1816-1861), miller, mayor in 1848-1861.

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Arthur Lamendin : Trade unionist
Jules Margerin (1837-1920), doctor and contractor. It transforms the mill on the Scheldt, inherited its Leriche in-laws, in powerplant (this before 1895). The Neuville-on-Scheldt is thus probably one of the first communes of France to being electrified. The mill, destroyed in 1918, is rebuilt. It will be definitively destroyed during the widening of the Scheldt to connect the Usinor factory of Dunkirk (1964).

Raphaël Lardeur was born on December 19th, 1890 in Neuville on the Scheldt. It is a painter and glass maker who in particular constructed certain stained glasses of the church of the commune, but it is especially known for the realization of the stained glasses of the basilica of Thonon the Baths and the church of Valencians.

See too

Common of North

External bonds

the Neuville-on-Scheldt
the Neuville-on-Scheldt on the site of the national geographical Institute
the Neuville-on-Scheldt on the site of INSEE
the Neuville-on-Scheldt on the site of Quid
Localization of the Neuville-on-Scheldt on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on the Neuville-on-Scheldt on Mapquest

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