Vieux-Condé

Vieux-Condé (French pronunciation: ​[vjø kɔ̃de]; Dutch: Oudkonde) is a commune on a canalised section of the River Scheldt in the Nord department in northern France. The village stands has become effectively a suburb of Valenciennes.

Vieux-Condé
Commune
The Martin Pit mining village of the Anzin mines
Coat of arms
Location of Vieux-Condé
Vieux-Condé
Vieux-Condé
Coordinates: 50°27′37″N 3°34′09″E
CountryFrance
RegionHauts-de-France
DepartmentNord
ArrondissementValenciennes
CantonMarly
IntercommunalityCA Valenciennes Métropole
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) David Bustin[1]
Area
1
11.06 km2 (4.27 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[2]
10,465
 • Density950/km2 (2,500/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
59616 /59690
Elevation13–51 m (43–167 ft)
(avg. 21 m or 69 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Name

The name of the village was formerly simply 'Condé', which is a place-name widespread in France, deriving possibly from a Gaulish word for a confluence of rivers.

The name is found in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 883, reporting that Vikings sailed up the Scheldt to occupy Cundoþ. It is found as Vetus Condatum in the 'cartulaire de Vicogne' of 1215 and as Vies Condet in a work by Jacques de Guise of the 14th century[3]

As the Prince of Condé was a prominent royalist, at the French Revolution the village was renamed 'Vieux-Nord-Libre' until 1810.

Heraldry
Arms of Vieux-Condé
 The arms of Vieux-Condé are blazoned :
Argent, on a fess gules, a vivre of the field. [a vivre is a thin barrulet dancetty]



Twinning

Bleicherode in Germany since 1961; also Niederzier in Germany since 1988.

See also

References
  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. "Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.
  3. Page 420, statistique archéologique du Département du Nord - seconde partie - 1867 - Librairie Quarré et Leleu à Lille, A. Durand, 7 rue Cujas à Paris - archive of Harvard College Library - via Google Books


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