Bambecque

Bambecque

Bambeke
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	Hauts de Flandre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Grégoire Francke[1]
Area 1	11.81 km2 (4.56 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2019)[2]	812
• Density	69/km2 (180/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 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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

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 Romance -becque (also -bec, -becques).[3]

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%

Year	Pop.	±%
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%

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

References

INSEE commune file

"Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
"Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.
Caljouw, William Robert (1981). Germanic elements in French Toponymy (Thesis). University of British Columbia. pp. 148, 151. doi:10.14288/1.0094985. Retrieved 2021-01-12.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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[1] "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.

[popleg2019-2] "Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.

[UBC-3] Caljouw, William Robert (1981). Germanic elements in French Toponymy (Thesis). University of British Columbia. pp. 148, 151. doi:10.14288/1.0094985. Retrieved 2021-01-12.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)