Wattrelos

Wattrelos is a common French, located in the department of the Northern (59) and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
This commune is divided between the cantons of Roubaix-Is and of Roubaix-North.

Its inhabitants is Wattrelosiens.

Blasonnement

  • Of azure to the lion fascé of money and mouths, armed, lampassé and crowned of gold .

History

Geography

Wattrelos is at the Belgian border, to 5 km of Lannoy, 14 km of Lille, 15 km of Menin, 17 km of Courtrai and to 19 km of Tournai. The Canal of Roubaix skirts the south of the commune, it will be reopened with navigation in 2008 (program Blue Links).

Communes bordering

Roubaix, Tourcoing, Mouscron, Luingne, Herseaux, Estaimpuis, Leers-North and Leers.

Administration

To note: Wattrelos (which is not chief town of canton) is composed of two parts of cantons at the same time: Roubaix-is and Roubaix-North. The voters thus vote in one or the other at the time of the election of their general adviser.

Demography

Graph of the evolution of the population

Economy

  • Services (44%)

  • Retail business (31%)
  • Industrial plants (15%: Redoute, Promod, Jules…)
  • Wholesale (10%)

In the economic sector, Wattrelos has many assets to put forward near the investors: accessibilities (two connections open towards Belgium in 2004 to the west and the east of the city), 90 hectares of industrial waste lands to reconquer (Spinning mills of Sartel, Filature Saint-Liévin and Wool of Roubaix whose very great majority of the buildings is actually on the territory of Wattrelos) and of the grounds to arrange in parks of activity in order to supplement the existing offer - in particular the industrial park of Martinoire, where Redoute locateis located, larger employer of the city (more than 2000 paid), which was the first industrial park of the department of North.

These parks of activity, currently under development full, are three: Avelin, Beck and Winhoute.

  • Avelin (10ha)

Located at the south-east of the city, its installation (by the Urban community of Lille) date of 1995. It is almost filled. One finds for the moment the following companies there: EUROGRAPHIE (serigraphic impression), SPUNTINI SNACK BARS (platform of distribution of food products intended for fast-food industry), KOLORIS (treatment and coating of metals), RICCI Automobile (automobile concession Peugeot, garage, sale and repair), LIVING ROOMS OF the FILBERT (traditional restoration and reception rooms).

  • Beck (32ha)

In the prolongation of the park of Avelin but on other side of the RD 700 (Southern Antenna of Roubaix) the park of Beck, conceived with the manner of a scrap-metal is located and mixing economic activity and habitat (allotment of 31 houses). One finds there the companies following: EQUESTRIAN THEATER DROULERS (equestrian theater), STEFFY (textile trade), PROMOD (female ready-made clothes), SUBWAY (food products for professionals of the trades of mouth), HAVE TINPLATE INDUSTRY (conditioning in scrap). Opposite this park of Beck, on a piece of the hamlet of Carluyère, a bus depot TRANSPOLE (public transport) is established.

  • Winhoute (28ha)

The Chamber of commerce and of Industry of Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing is the developer of this park of companies contiguous to the industrial park of Martinoire (north-western of the city). One will find there soon: JULES (male ready-made clothes), WAGNON (wholesaler out of toys), PAPER (material for swimming pools).

Places and monuments

  • Church Holy-Therese-in-the Child-Jesus, the Plowman, of Charles Bourgeois (1st half of the 20th century). (Classified with the Additional Inventory of the Historic buildings)

  • Church Saint-Maclou (downtown area)
  • Saint-Vincent-of-Paul Church, in Crétinier, of Paul Destombes (1897, destroyed in 1992).
  • Church Saint-Gerard (Touquet-Saint-Gerard)
  • Notre-Dame Church of the Good Council (Beaulieu)
  • Church of the Christ-King (Green Fir tree)

  • bourloires (the Saint-Paul, Carin, the municipal one, Saint-Joseph). The bouloires of Wattrelos are indexed with the inventory of the Historic buildings, and thus classified.

Personalities related to the commune

Twinnings

See too

  • Common of North

  • Giant of North
  • Romance Flanders
  • List of the giants of the North of France

External bonds

  • Official site

  • Wattrelos on the site of Lille Metropolis
  • College Emile Zola de Wattrelos
  • Wattrelos on the site of GenCom
  • Wattrelos chart of Cassini on the site of GenCom
  • Wattrelos on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Wattrelos on the site of INSEE
  • Wattrelos on the site of Quid
  • the communes closest to Wattrelos
  • Wattrelos on Mapquest
  • Wattrelos on Viamichelin

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