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Comines Comines - ( Dutch: Komen Waasten ) is a facilities - community in the Walloon province of Hainaut in Belgium and their enclave in the province of West Flanders. The place is in the southwest by the Leie (French: Lys) separated from his sister municipality of Comines on the French side.
The municipality consists of the five villages ( in brackets are the zip codes )
- Bas- Comines ( Neerwaasten ) ( 7484 )
- Comines ( Komen ) ( 7780 )
- Houthem ( Houtem ) ( 7781 )
- Ploegsteert ( 7782 )
- Comines ( Waasten ) ( 7784 )
History
In the time of the Spanish Netherlands, the two districts belonging to the County of Flanders and formed a city. After the signing of the Peace of Aachen in 1668 by Louis XIV the northern part of the city on Spain and the part came south of the Lys in France. The Castle of Comines to the fortress was built by Vauban. The Peace of Nijmegen and the northern part came temporarily to France to fall after the end of the reign of the Sun King in 1713 by the Peace of Utrecht to the Austrian Netherlands. Since the Congress of Vienna the site shares the history of Belgium. Since the Middle Ages, a thriving linen industry emerged in Comines, thanks to the crops grown in the region of the flax plant, as in the entire environment. 1719 first factory for the production of strips of linen was founded in Comines, which made the place over the course of 200 years to become a world center of the bands making. So the bands production reached to about 1900 the amount of 400 million meters. During the First World War, the city was completely destroyed by German troops, demolished any remnants and spent the machinery industry in Germany. After 1918, the city was rebuilt partly in Flemish Neo - Renaissance style.
Sons and daughters
- Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven (1799-1881), Belgian painter
- Gustave Singier (1909-1984, Paris ), Belgian painter
- Jonathan Blondel ( born 1984 ), Belgian football player (FC Bruges )