Intercommunality Pays de Pévèle Area 15.84 km² | Canton Cysoing Population (1999) 5,778 Local time Wednesday 1:53 AM | |
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Weather 9°C, Wind SW at 10 km/h, 89% Humidity | ||
Templeuve-en-Pévèle, formerly Templeuve, is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
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Map of 59242 Templeuve, France
Etymology
In October 2014, the city council voted for changing commune's name for "Templeuve-en-Pévèle". Name changing took effect 16 November 2015.
Windmill
Templeuve-en-Pévèle is the location of a windmill. The windmill tower is first mentioned in 1328 in rent documents of Anchin Abbey, as the "Moulin de Viertain". It was burned during the war in 1616, and completely rebuilt. It stopped productive work in 1908, and was damaged during the First World War by people wanting wood. Its restoration began in 1980 and the sails were added in 1985. It is now open to visits.
It was successful in the hands of the families De la Porte dit d'Espierres, Robert, Jacops d'Aigrement before the French Revolution. It was then owned by the Havet and Band families. The mill, whose tower was erected at the end of the seventeenth century, remained active until the death of miller Jean-Baptiste Houze on 21 November 1907. His widow completed grinding the last bags of grain and then abandoned the mill.
Jean Bruggeman, the president of the Regional Association 'des Amis des Moulins', inspired the municipality of Templeuve-en-Pévèle to acquire the mill in 1973. The restoration was completed on 15 June 1985, and it was opened by the mayor, Robert Vandelanoitte, and Alphonse Dhelin, the Assistant for Cultural Affairs.
The post-house design means that the internal mechanism and upper structure rests on a pivot, which rotates when wind direction changes.