Ferrière-la-Grande

Ferrière-la-Grande is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Ferrière-la-Grande
Commune
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Location of Ferrière-la-Grande
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Coordinates: 50°15′20″N 3°59′36″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Avesnes-sur-Helpe
Canton	Maubeuge
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération Maubeuge Val de Sambre
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Philippe Dronsart
Area ^1	10.01 km^2 (3.86 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	5,301
• Density	530/km^2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59230 /59680
Elevation	127–184 m (417–604 ft) (avg. 149 m or 489 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

In 1828 Pierre François Dumont applied for a concession to operate iron mines in the canton of Maubeuge, and for authorization to establish two iron furnaces at Ferrière-la-Grande powered by steam.[2] Dumont founded the factories at Ferrière-la-grande in 1830, the first coke-fired blast furnaces in the north of France to produce and mould pig-iron from the local minerals.[3] By decree of 23 April 1859 Dumont was granted a concession to build a railway line to link the factories Ferrière-la-Grande to the Saint-Quentin line at Erquelinnes. The line was built on land acquired by Dumont or expropriated on the grounds of public utility.[4]

Heraldry

Arms of Ferrière-la-Grande

The arms of Ferrière-la-Grande are blazoned : Quarterly 1&4: Argent, 3 fesses gules; 2&3: Argent, 3 wagoner's axes top 2 addorsed gules. [5](Bermerain, Étrœungt, Féron, Ferrière-la-Grande, Lez-Fontaine, Rousies, Solre-le-Château and Solrinnes use the same arms.)

See also

• Soltre
• Communes of the Nord department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Barbier & Daviet 1989, p. 217.
3. Bulletin de le Societe ... 1890, p. 265.
4. Carnot 1881, p. 367.
5. Arms of the families of Croÿ-Solre and Croÿ-Renty quartered

Sources

• Barbier, Frédéric; Daviet, Jean-Pierre (1989), Le patronat du Nord sous le Second Empire: une approche prosopographique, Librairie Droz, ISBN 978-2-600-03408-1, retrieved 2017-08-19
• "Etablissements metallurgiques de Ferrière-la-grande", Bulletin de le Societe de l'Industrie Minerale (in French), IV, Société de l'industrie minérale, 1890, retrieved 2017-10-28
• Carnot, Sadi (1881), Annales des ponts et chaussees. 2. partie: Partie administrative (in French), retrieved 2017-10-28
• INSEE commune file