Nieppe

Nieppe Niepkerke
Nieppe
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Nieppe
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkerque
Canton	Bailleul-Nord-Est
Intercommunality	Monts de Flandres - Plaine de la Lys
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Michel Vandevoorde
Area1	17.3 km2 (6.7 sq mi)
Population (1999)2	7,470
• Density	430/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	59431 / 59850
Elevation	12–21 m (39–69 ft) (avg. 16 m or 52 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Nieppe (Dutch: Niepkerke) 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

• 1962: 4,997
• 1968: 5,341
• 1975: 6,903
• 1982: 7,238
• 1990: 7,417
• 1999: 7,470

About Nieppe

It is situated by the Belgian border. It is located from Armentières and is also located 42 km southeast of Dunkerque or Dunkirk and is connected with the A25 (15 km) to Lille and the Departmental route 933. The bounding municipality in Belgium includes Heuvelland.

Nieppe has a railway station with the TER with trains from Calais Ville and Dunkerque to Gare de Lille Flandres. Its nearest airport 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: Jules Houcke
• 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 Bailleuil and Kassel, the axis, the today's A25.

Heraldry

The arms of Nieppe are blazoned : 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 treasue 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 March 31, 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.

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file
• Description du département du Nord (Description of the Nord Department) by François Joseph Grille (d'Angers) Paris, Ed Sazerac & Duval, 1825-1830 (started in 1824) (French)
• Ville de Nieppe