Ferrière-la-Grande

Ferrière-la-Grande
Commune
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Coat of arms
Ferrière-la-Grande
Location within Hauts-de-France region
Ferrière-la-Grande
Coordinates: 50°15′20″N 3°59′36″E / 50.2556°N 3.9933°E / 50.2556; 3.9933Coordinates: 50°15′20″N 3°59′36″E / 50.2556°N 3.9933°E / 50.2556; 3.9933
Country France
Region Hauts-de-France
Department Nord
Arrondissement Avesnes-sur-Helpe
Canton Maubeuge
Intercommunality Maubeuge Val de Sambre
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Philippe Dronsart
Area1 10.01 km2 (3.86 sq mi)
Population (1999)2 5,669
 • Density 570/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 59230 /59680
Elevation 127–184 m (417–604 ft)
(avg. 149 m or 489 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.

Ferrière-la-Grande is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

In 1828 Pierre François Dumont applied for a concession to operate iron mines in the canton of Maubeuge, and for authorization to establish two iron furnaces at Ferrière-la-Grande powered by steam.[1] Dumont founded the factories at Ferrière-la-grande in 1830, the first coke-fired blast furnaces in the north of France to produce and mould pig-iron from the local minerals.[2] By decree of 23 April 1859 Dumont was granted a concession to build a railway line to link the factories Ferrière-la-Grande to the Saint-Quentin line at Erquelinnes. The line was built on land acquired by Dumont or expropriated on the grounds of public utility.[3]

Heraldry

 The arms of Ferrière-la-Grande are blazoned :

Quarterly 1&4: Argent, 3 fesses gules; 2&3: Argent, 3 wagoner's axes top 2 addorsed gules. [4](Bermerain, Étrœungt, Féron, Ferrière-la-Grande, Lez-Fontaine, Rousies, Solre-le-Château and Solrinnes use the same arms.)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Barbier & Daviet 1989, p. 217.
  2. ↑ Bulletin de le Societe ... 1890, p. 265.
  3. ↑ Carnot 1881, p. 367.
  4. ↑ Arms of the families of Croÿ-Solre and Croÿ-Renty quartered

Sources

  • Barbier, Frédéric; Daviet, Jean-Pierre (1989), Le patronat du Nord sous le Second Empire: une approche prosopographique, Librairie Droz, ISBN 978-2-600-03408-1, retrieved 2017-08-19
  • "Etablissements metallurgiques de Ferrière-la-grande", Bulletin de le Societe de l'Industrie Minerale (in French), IV, Société de l'industrie minérale, 1890, retrieved 2017-10-28
  • Carnot, Sadi (1881), Annales des ponts et chaussees. 2. partie: Partie administrative (in French), retrieved 2017-10-28
  • INSEE commune file
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