Bruay-la-Buissière

Bruay-la-Buissière

French commune
name= Bruay-la-Buissière
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Béthune
canton= Bruay-la-Buissière (chef-lieu)
insee=62178
cp=62700
maire=Alain Wacheux
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm=communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois
longitude=2.54861111111
latitude=50.4819444444
alt moy=98 m
alt mini=30 m
alt maxi=106 m
hectares=1635
km²=16,35
sans=23,998
date-sans=1999
dens=1467|

Bruay-la-Buissière is a commune and chief town of a canton in the Pas-de-Calais "département" in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

An ex-coalmining town some convert|6|mi|km|1 southwest of Béthune and convert|30|mi|km|1 southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D57 and the N47 roads.

History

The two places of Bruay-en-Artois and La Buissiere were joined as one commune in 1987.With 4 coal mines, it was the headquarters of the mining company. The coal mines closed during the 1960s, to be replaced by light industrial work and chemical factories.

Population

Places of interest

* The Hotel de Ville (Town Hall), 47m tall and built in 1927. The windows recount scenes from the lives of miners.
* The Art Deco swimming pool, built in 1936 (the last remaining Art Deco pool open to the public)
* The Museum of mining.
* The Church of Saint Martin, dating from the 15th century, was expanded and renovated in 1974.
* Ballencourt manor in La Buissière, was built in 1777. Partially renovated, it now hosts the music school.
* The donjon of the castle of La Buissière, built in 1310 by Mahaut, Countess of Artois.
* The church at La Buissière, presently closed to the public for renovation work.
* The Velodrome at La Buissière built by the Bruay Mining Co., in 1925.
* The Museum of calculation and Scripture. Traces the history of writing and calculating machines such as the Enigma German coding machine.

See also

Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

External links

* [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=56200&mode=1 The CWGC graves in the Bruay-la-Buissière communal cemetery]
* [http://www.bruaylabuissiere.fr Official website of the commune] fr
* [http://www.bruay.info A website about the commune] fr
* [http://www.agglo-artoiscomm.fr/ The website of the Agglomération de l'Artois] fr
* [http://www.bruaysis.fr/ Website of the Communauté du Bruaysis] fr
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=26659&req=Bruay-la-Buissière Bruay-la-Buissière on the Quid website] fr

Notes

*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on July 11th 2008."


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