Thieusies

Thieusies (in Walloon Tieuziye ) is a section of the Belgian city of Soignies, located in Walloon region in the Province of Hainaut.

It was a common to whole share before the fusion of the communes of 1977.

Altitude max: 120 meters

Etymology

The name of Thieusies finds its origin in the Latin word Theodisiacae meaning “grounds of Theodisio”. For this reason, the inhabitants are called théodosiens.

History

Like proof of the dwelling of the site of Thieusies, with the Neolithic era, time of the blossoming of new techniques like ceramics and the appearance of agriculture and the breeding, one found instruments such as cut or polished axes, scrapers, gravers, arrowheads black flint to the beige. One finds traces of the culture known as there of Michelsberg. Thieusies was the seat of several seigniories whose principal one belonged successively to the families of Thieusies, Launais, Ardembourg and Marin.

In 1605, Philippe the Beautiful engaged in Jean de Hoghes the part of the ground of Thieusies which belonged to him. One found there the seigniories of Sasine, the Rocket, of the Mound, the stronghold of Buecq and the two seigniories of Sirieux pertaining to the house of Roeulx and the chapter of Bubbles. Thieusies was the seat of an important battle on August 14th, 1678: the battles of Saint-Denis, an episode of the long wars undertaken by Louis XIV to make sure the rich person provinces of the Spanish Netherlands. Water was installed in Thieusies about 1900 by the former burgomaster Jules Hachez to whom one dedicated the monument to water located Place of the Combatants. For the beer amateurs, there existed formerly on the Place of Thieusies a Desquennes brewery where the " was manufactured; Grisette of Thieusies".

Landscape

Most of the village is on a small occupied plate of great arable land extents and pastures. The part of the territory in extreme cases of Casteau presents a relief more accentuated because it is at the edge of the valley of the Aubrecheuil.

Geology

The basement of Thieusies mainly consists of ground Yprésien of the era Cénozoïque (Eocene Time, approximately 55 million years ago). One can divide it into two categories. Sandy Yprésien at the top of the wooded hillocks of the area (fine sands micaceous slightly glauconifères) and argillaceous Yprésien (ocher clay gray/). Small local water tables can exist on the level of this layer of clay. It is also possible to find more in-depth layers dating from Carboniferous (approximately 350 million years ago). These layers are visible in the blue stone quarries of the area of Neufvilles and Soignies but also on the surface along the valley of Aubrecheuil on the territory of Thieusies.

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