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Nieppe

Field	Value
name	Nieppe
commune status	Commune
image	Mairie de la ville de Nieppe.jpg
caption	The town hall in Nieppe
image coat of arms	Blason de la ville de Nieppe (59) Nord-France.svg
native name	Niepkerke
arrondissement	Dunkerque
canton	Bailleul
INSEE	59431
postal code	59850
mayor	Marie Sandra
term	2023–2026
intercommunality	CA Cœur de Flandre
coordinates
elevation m	16
elevation min m	12
elevation max m	21
area km2	17.3
population
population date
population footnotes
demonym	Nieppois(es)

|image coat of arms = Blason de la ville de Nieppe (59) Nord-France.svg Nieppe (; ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is in the Lys Plain and a portion of it is in the Lys Valley (Leiedal in Dutch).

Population

|1968 |5341 |1975 |6903 |1982 |7238 |1990 |7417 |1999 |7470 |2007 |7568 |2012 |7412 |2017 |7476

Geography

It is situated by the Belgian border. It is located close to Armentières, 42 km southeast of Dunkerque (Dunkirk) and is connected by the A25 (15 km) to Lille. It borders the Belgian municipalities Heuvelland and Comines-Warneton.

Nieppe has a railway station served by TER trains from Calais-Ville station and Dunkerque to Lille-Flandres station. Its nearest airports are in Merville (18 km) and Lesquin (24 km)

Mayors

1790-1802: Jean-Marc Chieus
1802-1837: Constant Watelet de Messange
1837-1841: Pierre Portebois
1841-1848: Charles Vanmerris
1848-1865: Cyrille Delangre-Salembié
1865-1870: Edmond Watelet de Messange
1870-1871: Félix Gokelaere
1871-1875: Hippolyte Delbecque
1875-1890: Louis Loridan
1890-1898: Hippolyte Delbecque
1898-1906: Hector Pollet
1906-1939: Henri Vanuxeem
1939-1968:
1968-1972: Renée Houcke

History

In its point of its economic view, Nieppe suffered numerous invasions and wars which devastated the area, especially the profit of strategic position of the heart of the agricultural area and more European productives, its strategic axis Lille-Dunkirk via Bailleul and Cassel, the axis, the today's A25.

Heraldry

Quarterly 1&4: Sable, 6 bezants 3,2,1(Or); 2&3: Argent, a chevron between 3 roses gules.

Points of interests

A local historic museum
Château de Nieppe - features a treasure legend, its part and a centennial tree
War cemeteries of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
- Nieppe Communal Cemetery
- Pont-D'Achelles Military Cemetery
- Pont-de-Nieppe Communal Cemetery

People

Line Renaud (born in 1928)
Jules Houcke

Other

Nieppe features its own football (soccer) club FC Nieppe and its handball club (team). Nieppe also has a library named after Maurice Schumann, its painting and music school and K'Dane (a Nieppe (Nieppoise) dance school). Miss Cantine was created during the Second World War and was recreated and named on 31 March 2007. It features several funny faces on the solidarity of several Nieppois residents. Opened by Jules Houcke, mayor of Nieppe created and alimented a scholar cantine, opened equally for old people of the commune.

References

(30 November 2023). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises.
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune/59431-nieppe INSEE commune file]
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-59431#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

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