Lille, Belgium

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Lille, also Sint- Pieters- Lille, is a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp, administratively and legally it belongs to Arrondissement Turnhout, Herentals to legal Canton, in the North Kempen.

Lille is 1846 hectares and in 1974 3818 inhabitants, while in 1920 it still had in 1353. On 1 January 2012, the community numbered 16,350 inhabitants. The landscape is flat. The municipality lies at an altitude 13-20 m above sea level. NN In the south there is a small relief of small country dunes. The soil is mainly sandy. The working population commutes mainly in the near Antwerp. Until the 1970s, agriculture has played a significant role.

Attractions

In Lille, the Sint -Pieters church with Gothic tower from the late 15th or early 16th century. On the main altar there is a "Crucifixion of St. Peter " by Theodoor Boeyermans ( 1663 ). The restored choir dates from 1673.

History

First documented in a charter of the Bishop of Cambrai in 1123 cum Lisleo, and in 1157 as Linlo from the Germanic lindo and Lauha ( grove on a high sandy soil ). Originally Lille was dependent on Vorselaar; later it was part of the district of Turnhout in the Margraviate of Antwerp. Philip the Good, there was Ambrose de Dynter as a fief. 1560 was pledged to Gaspar Schetz, Lord of Grobbendonk. In the 18th century it is bound to Turnhout. Before 1560 Lille was part of the diocese of Cambrai. Then until 1802 the diocese of Antwerp. Until 1962 it belonged to the Archbishopric of Mechelen. Since then it belongs again to the diocese of Antwerp.