Haubourdin
Haubourdin is a commune with 14,367 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the department of Nord, in the Nord -Pas -de -Calais. It belongs to the district of Lille and is capital of the canton Haubourdin.
Geography
The community Haubourdin is located six kilometers south of Lille. Its neighboring municipalities are: Emmerin, Santes, Sequedin, Loos and Hallennes -lez- Haubourdin.
History
Haubourdin is first mentioned in a deed from the year 1127, as Simon of Vermandois, Bishop of Tournai and Noyon, the local church of the abbess Marie of Denain gives. The community is then referred to as Arboden, Harboden, Harbodin, Haburdin and Habourdin.
Owners of Haubourdin were from the 13th to the 17th century, the castle Count of Lille. Then came the place where the house of Luxembourg - Ligny, the House of Burgundy and the Count of Saint -Pol. King Henry IV sold Haubourdin to Nicolas du Chastel, Seigneur de la Howarderie. On October 3, 1605 were Haubourdin and its surroundings, which belonged to the Hainaut until then raised to the Vice- county. The last Vicomte d' Haubourdin 1794 died on the scaffold.
Attractions
- Church Saint- Maclou, built by Jean -Baptiste Cordonnier 1867
- Château Dervaux (Quartier de l' Heurtebise )
- Ferme du Bocquiau (1703, testified in 1466 )
- Mairie (town hall) from the 18th century, formerly a private home
- Ecole de la Sagesse et la Chapelle (1820 )
- Hôpital Jean de Luxembourg (1878 )
Twinning
- Jülich, North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany, since 1964
- Halstead, Essex, United Kingdom
Born in Haubourdin
- Jean -Baptiste Cordonnier (1820-1902), architect
- Louis Marie Cordonnier (1854-1940), architect, son of the foregoing,
- Jacques Vandier (1904-1973, Paris ), Egyptologist