Local time Monday 11:13 AM | Arrondissement Dunkerque Area 17.3 km² | |
Intercommunality Monts de Flandres - Plaine de la Lys Weather 12°C, Wind SE at 8 km/h, 64% Humidity | ||
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).
Contents
- Map of 59850 Nieppe France
- Population
- About Nieppe
- Mayors
- History
- Points of interests
- People
- Other
- References
Map of 59850 Nieppe, France
Population
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
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.
Points of interests
People
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.