Colfontaine
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 20,400 residents
- Description: municipality in Wallonia, Belgium
- Postal code: 7340
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grand-Hornu and Cimetière d’Hornu.
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. Grand-Hornu is situated 3½ km north of Colfontaine.
Cimetière d’Hornu
Cemetery
Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cimetière d’Hornu is a cemetery, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Colfontaine.
Coal mines in Frameries
Memorial
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coal mines in Frameries is a memorial, which is situated 3½ km east of Colfontaine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pâturages and La Bouverie.
Wasmes
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.0.
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.
Colfontaine
- Categories: municipality of Belgium and locality
- Location: Colfontaine, Arrondissement of Mons, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.40566° or 50° 24′ 20″ northLongitude
3.8514° or 3° 51′ 5″ eastPopulation
20,400Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)United Nations Location Code
BE CFAOpen location code
9F25CV42+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 476285157OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Zeeuws—“Colfontaine” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Colfontaine”
- Breton: “Colfontaine”
- Bulgarian: “Колфонтен”
- Catalan: “Colfontaine”
- Cebuano: “Colfontaine”
- Chinese: “科尔方丹”
- Dutch: “Colfontaine”
- Esperanto: “Colfontaine”
- French: “Colfontaine”
- German: “Colfontaine”
- Haitian: “Kòlfontèn”
- Hungarian: “Colfontaine”
- Irish: “Colfontaine”
- Italian: “Colfontaine”
- Limburgan: “Colfontaine”
- Luxembourgish: “Colfontaine”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Colfontaine”
- Norwegian: “Colfontaine”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Colfontaine”
- Persian: “کولفونتن”
- Picard: “Colfontinne”
- Polish: “Colfontaine”
- Portuguese: “Colfontaine”
- Romanian: “Colfontaine”
- Russian: “Кольфонтен”
- Russian: “Кольфонтэн”
- Slovak: “Colfontaine”
- Spanish: “Colfontaine”
- Swedish: “Colfontaine”
- Turkish: “Colfontaine”
- Vietnamese: “Colfontaine”
- Volapük: “Colfontaine”
- Walloon: “Colfontinne”
- Waray (Philippines): “Colfontaine”
- Zeeuws: “Colfontaine”
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Highlights include Église Notre-Dame Auxiliatrice and Terril.
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