Bollezeele
Commune
A view within Bollezeele
A view within Bollezeele
Coat of arms of Bollezeele
Coat of arms
Location of Bollezeele
Bollezeele is located in France
Bollezeele
Bollezeele
Bollezeele is located in Hauts-de-France
Bollezeele
Bollezeele
Coordinates: 50°51′55″N 2°19′29″E / 50.8653°N 2.3247°E / 50.8653; 2.3247
CountryFrance
RegionHauts-de-France
DepartmentNord
ArrondissementDunkirk
CantonWormhout
IntercommunalityHauts de Flandre
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Pierre Marle[1]
Area
1
17.54 km2 (6.77 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2020)[2]
1,424
 • Density81/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
59089 /59470
Elevation2–52 m (6.6–170.6 ft)
(avg. 44 m or 144 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bollezeele (French pronunciation: [bɔlzɛl]; from Dutch; Bollezele in the modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.[3]

It is 17 km (11 mi) south of Dunkirk and also 20 km (12 mi) west of the Belgian border. The river Yser runs through Bollezeele.

Language

Bollezeele's local speech is traditionally a Flemish dialect, similar to that spoken on the other side of the border with Belgium; this led to the town's being included in the Atlas Linguarum Europae as one of the Germanic dialects in France (the others were all in either Alsace or Moselle).[4]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793 1,258—    
1800 1,383+9.9%
1806 1,539+11.3%
1821 1,588+3.2%
1831 1,662+4.7%
1836 1,708+2.8%
1841 1,740+1.9%
1846 1,800+3.4%
1851 1,769−1.7%
1856 1,732−2.1%
1861 1,718−0.8%
1866 1,776+3.4%
1872 1,811+2.0%
1876 1,815+0.2%
1881 1,798−0.9%
1886 1,805+0.4%
1891 1,700−5.8%
1896 1,649−3.0%
1901 1,620−1.8%
YearPop.±%
1906 1,591−1.8%
1911 1,585−0.4%
1921 1,550−2.2%
1926 1,560+0.6%
1931 1,543−1.1%
1936 1,562+1.2%
1946 1,506−3.6%
1954 1,463−2.9%
1962 1,439−1.6%
1968 1,389−3.5%
1975 1,328−4.4%
1982 1,500+13.0%
1990 1,476−1.6%
1999 1,382−6.4%
2004 1,375−0.5%
2006 1,382+0.5%
2009 1,391+0.7%
2014 1,432+2.9%
2015 1,443+0.8%

Heraldry

Arms of Bollezeele
Arms of Bollezeele
 The arms of Bollezeele are blazoned :

Or, a lion sable armed and langued gules. ('Flanders' and the communes of Thourotte, Crépy-en-Valois, Bollezeele, Feignies, Flines-lez-Raches and Wormhout use the same arms.)



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 2020". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2022.
  3. ↑ INSEE commune file
  4. ↑ Eder, Birgit (2003). Ausgewählte Verwandtschaftsbezeichnungen in den Sprachen Europas. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. p. 299. ISBN 3631528736.
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