Bambecque

Bambecque (Dutch: Bambeke) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Bambecque Bambeke
Commune
The church in Bambecque
Coat of arms
Location of Bambecque
Bambecque Bambecque
Coordinates: 50°54′05″N 2°32′55″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkerque
Canton	Wormhout
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes des Hauts de Flandre
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Grégoire Francke
Area ^1	11.81 km^2 (4.56 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	770
• Density	65/km^2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59046 /59470
Elevation	2–24 m (6.6–78.7 ft) (avg. 8 m or 26 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Etymology

Bambecque has historically been attested as Banbeca in 1164. The toponym Bambecque is of Germanic origin, deriving from a Low German dialect, ultimately from Proto-West-Germanic *ban. Within the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments, the Germanic hydronym *-bak(i) entered the French language via Low German, and took on two forms: the Germanic form -beek and Romantic -becque (also -bec, -becques).[2]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,000	—
1800	1,019	+1.9%
1806	1,139	+11.8%
1821	1,143	+0.4%
1831	1,139	−0.3%
1836	1,164	+2.2%
1841	1,156	−0.7%
1846	1,168	+1.0%
1851	1,126	−3.6%
1856	1,077	−4.4%
1861	1,050	−2.5%
1866	1,014	−3.4%
1872	953	−6.0%
1876	985	+3.4%
1881	998	+1.3%
1886	982	−1.6%
1891	974	−0.8%
1896	919	−5.6%
1901	883	−3.9%
1906	875	−0.9%
1911	851	−2.7%
1921	820	−3.6%
1926	763	−7.0%
1931	741	−2.9%
1936	702	−5.3%
1946	735	+4.7%
1954	677	−7.9%
1962	614	−9.3%
1968	642	+4.6%
1975	614	−4.4%
1982	614	+0.0%
1990	589	−4.1%
1999	655	+11.2%
2006	673	+2.7%
2009	719	+6.8%
2011	739	+2.8%
2015	744	+0.7%

Politics

Presidential Elections 2nd Round

Election		Winning Candidate	Party	%
	2017	Marine Le Pen	FN	52.06
	2012	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	60.04
	2007	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	60.04
	2002	Jacques Chirac	RPR	79.30

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Heraldry

Arms of Bambecque

The arms of Bambecque are blazoned : Argent, a lion sable, armed and langued gules. (The arms of Bambecque, Crochte, Killem and Maing are essentially the same)

Points of interest

• Jardin botanique du Val d'Yser

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Caljouw, William Robert (1981). "Germanic elements in French Toponymy". University of British Columbia. pp. 148, 151. doi:10.14288/1.0094985. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
3. http://www.lemonde.fr/data/france/presidentielle-2017//