Wallers

Waller is a commune with 5560 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Nord, in the Nord -Pas -de -Calais. With its mine Wallers- Arenberg is the community of industry historical significance. Thanks to the trouée d' Arenberg, an important passage of the cycling race Paris -Roubaix, Waller also has an on industrial culture beyond tourist importance.

History

The area around Waller was already more than 45,000 years, populated by humans. This is suggested by human traces out in the form of flint tools. Waller was probably founded by the Merovingians. Experienced its heyday in the 19th and 20th centuries Wallers. During this period two mines and sugar mills, breweries, brick factories, an e- factory and a distillery. At the same time the population increased from 1852 in 1801 to 7659 to in 1954.