Marchienne-au-Pont

Marchienne-au-Pont (Walloon: Mårciene) is a town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Charleroi, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

It was a commune in its own right before the merger of communes in 1977, when it had a population of 17,000.

Sights

• The
  Castle of Cartier was built on the ruins of an earlier castle, which had been destroyed by the troops of Henri II on July 21, 1554. The Cartier family owned it from 1726 to 1938. It was converted to a library in April 2002. The outer bailey has been replaced by a public swimming pool and the park has been partly destroyed.^{[citation needed}
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• The city walls. ^[citation needed]

History

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To outline the history of the locality of Marchienne-au-Pont, we must go back to the 9th century, to the death of

In 980, Prince-Bishop Notger acquired the powers of the count and transformed the domain into a political enclave of Liège with, as a stronghold, Thuin and its ramparts. Under the protection of the prince-bishops Marchienne develops and prospers.

Yvonne Viesley

On October 12, 1918, Yvonne Viesley, age 10, was shot by a German soldier after she tried to pass a piece of bread to French prisoners through the bars of a gate. French president Poincaré gave her a posthumous medal of honor on September 11, 1919. A monument has been built where she fell.

Coat of arms

People born in Marchienne-au-Pont

• Georges Butaud, anarchism and veganism activist^[1]
• Fernand Verhaegen, painter and etcher
• André Souris, classical music composer associated with the Surrealists^{[2][circular reference]}

Gallery

• 
  Château Bilquin de Cartier.
• 
  Holy Virgin church.
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  Former brewery of the "Allies".
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  Old town hall built in 1973.
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  Marchienne-au-Pont in 1900 with the old church.
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  Presbytery.
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  St. Rita Shrine.

See also

• Écho de la Sambre - A newspaper that was published in Marchienne-au-Pont.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marchienne-au-Pont.

• Picture of the castle court
• Photo gallery of the monument dedicated to Yvonne Viesley