Bollezeele

Bollezeele (from Dutch; Bollezele in the modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Bollezeele
Commune
A view within Bollezeele
Coat of arms
Location of Bollezeele
Bollezeele
Bollezeele
Coordinates: 50°51′55″N 2°19′29″E
CountryFrance
RegionHauts-de-France
DepartmentNord
ArrondissementDunkirk
CantonWormhout
IntercommunalityHauts de Flandre
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Pierre Marle[1]
Area
1
17.54 km2 (6.77 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[2]
1,424
 • Density81/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
59089 /59470
Elevation2–52 m (6.6–170.6 ft)
(avg. 44 m or 144 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

It is 17 km (11 mi) south of Dunkirk and also 20 km (12 mi) west of the Belgian border. The river Yser runs through Bollezeele.

Language

Bollezeele's local speech is traditionally a Flemish dialect, similar to that spoken on the other side of the border with Belgium; this led to the town's being included in the Atlas Linguarum Europae as one of the Germanic dialects in France (the others were all in either Alsace or Moselle).[3]

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793 1,258—    
1800 1,383+9.9%
1806 1,539+11.3%
1821 1,588+3.2%
1831 1,662+4.7%
1836 1,708+2.8%
1841 1,740+1.9%
1846 1,800+3.4%
1851 1,769−1.7%
1856 1,732−2.1%
1861 1,718−0.8%
1866 1,776+3.4%
1872 1,811+2.0%
1876 1,815+0.2%
1881 1,798−0.9%
1886 1,805+0.4%
1891 1,700−5.8%
1896 1,649−3.0%
1901 1,620−1.8%
YearPop.±%
1906 1,591−1.8%
1911 1,585−0.4%
1921 1,550−2.2%
1926 1,560+0.6%
1931 1,543−1.1%
1936 1,562+1.2%
1946 1,506−3.6%
1954 1,463−2.9%
1962 1,439−1.6%
1968 1,389−3.5%
1975 1,328−4.4%
1982 1,500+13.0%
1990 1,476−1.6%
1999 1,382−6.4%
2004 1,375−0.5%
2006 1,382+0.5%
2009 1,391+0.7%
2014 1,432+2.9%
2015 1,443+0.8%

Heraldry
Arms of Bollezeele
 The arms of Bollezeele are blazoned :

Or, a lion sable armed and langued gules. ('Flanders' and the communes of Thourotte, Crépy-en-Valois, Bollezeele, Feignies, Flines-lez-Raches and Wormhout use the same arms.)



See also

References
  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. "Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.
  3. Eder, Birgit (2003). Ausgewählte Verwandtschaftsbezeichnungen in den Sprachen Europas. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. p. 299. ISBN 3631528736.


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