Hautmont

Skin Mont ( Dutch: Hogeberg ) is a commune and industrial town with 14,115 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) on the Sambre in the department of Nord, in the Nord -Pas -de- Calais, southwest of Maubeuge (6 km), 10 km south of the border with Belgium. The city had suffered greatly from the decline of the steel industry in the region.

3 August 2008 went against 22:33 clock a tornado of strength T8F4 about skin Mont, which killed three people and great devastation wreaked.

Twinning

Mont skin is twinned with

  • Kalisz in Poland. This partnership goes back to 1959.
  • Halver in North Rhine -Westphalia ( Germany )
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