Wasmes
Wasmes is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Colfontaine, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. In January 1879 Vincent van Gogh temporarily moved to the village, in the hamlet of Petit Wasmes, to take up a post as missionary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 11,700 residents
- Description: section of Colfontaine, Belgium
- Postal code: 7340
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grand-Hornu and Femme immigrée, pont entre générations et cultures.
Grand-Hornu
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
Grand-Hornu is an old industrial coal mining complex and company town in Hornu, near Mons, in Belgium. It was built by Henri De Gorge between 1810 and 1830.
Femme immigrée, pont entre générations et cultures
Work of art
Photo: Jmh2o, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Femme immigrée, pont entre générations et cultures is a work of art.
Mausolée de la famille De Gorge
Memorial
Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mausolée de la famille De Gorge is a memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pâturages and Hornu.
Colfontaine
Town
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.0.
Colfontaine is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On 1 January 2006, the municipality had 20,021 inhabitants. The total area is 13.62 km. The municipality consists of the following districts: Pâturages, Warquignies, Wasmes.
Wasmes
- Categories: municipality section and locality
- Location: Colfontaine, Arrondissement of Mons, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.42189° or 50° 25′ 19″ northLongitude
3.8438° or 3° 50′ 38″ eastPopulation
11,700Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)Open location code
9F25CRCV+QGOpenStreetMap ID
node 670199191OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2784019Wikidata ID
Q2350085
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Walloon—“Wasmes” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Wasmes”
- Dutch: “Wasmes”
- Esperanto: “Wasmes”
- French: “Wasmes”
- German: “Wasmes”
- Haitian: “Wam (Kòfontèn)”
- Haitian: “Wam”
- Hungarian: “Wasmes”
- Irish: “Wasmes”
- Latin: “Wasmia”
- Persian: “واسمه”
- Picard: “Wames”
- Polish: “Wasmes (Colfontaine)”
- Polish: “Wasmes”
- Russian: “Вам”
- Spanish: “Wasmes”
- Walloon: “Wame-e-Borinaedje”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Administration Communale and Église Notre-Dame.
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