Nieppe (; ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.INSEE commune file It is in the Lys Plain and a portion of it is in the Lys Valley (Leiedal in Dutch).
Population
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
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.
See also Communes of the Nord department
References
External links 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) Ville de Nieppe