Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Vieux-Condé

Commune in Hauts-de-France, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vieux-Condémap
Remove ads

Vieux-Condé (French pronunciation: [vjø kɔ̃de]; Dutch: Oudkonde) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.[3] The village stands on a canalised section of the river Scheldt, adjacent to the northwest of Condé-sur-l'Escaut. It is part of the agglomeration (unité urbaine) of Valenciennes.[3]

Quick Facts Country, Region ...
Remove ads

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[4]

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

Remove ads

Population

More information Year, Pop. ...

Heraldry

Thumb
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

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads