Luingne ( ; or []; ; ) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Mouscron, located in the Hainaut Province, province of Hainaut, Belgium. It was a municipality in its own right before the 1977 fusion of municipalities. The inhabitants are called "Cleugnottes". The district is 554-acre large.

Dioceses

In 1117, a

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was signed by Ernulfus de Luina. Pope

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(1090-1118) mentions Luingne's altar in a

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. A bull of

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(1187-1191) confirmed that the chapel and its grounds had been given to the chapter of Tournai. In 1146 the

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was separated from the

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and the presbytery of Luingne became part of the

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of Helchin. In 1569 the bishop divided this deanery into Helchin-Flamand and Helchin-Wallon, of which Luingne is a part. In 1801, Napoleon created the

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and Luingne (like Mouscron and Herseaux) became part of the deanery of Menin. In 1932, Monsignor Lamiroy,

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, created a French-speaking deanery within his Flemish diocese, grouping together Mouscron-Comines and the surroundings. In 1967, this deanery was attached to the diocese of Tournai under Monsignor Himmer.

Religious monuments

The church has always been in the same place throughout the years. It is even possible that a romanesque building was there before; a drawing from 1813 by Séraphin Vermote represents it. A condemnation for iconoclast destructions committed in the church of Luingne on 24 August 1566 is known thanks to a judgement in

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. The wars of

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would not spare it either and in 1676 a request was presented in order to repair it. During the French Revolution in 1794, a budget was drawn up to replace the goods that had been pillaged by the

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. The decision to demolish the old church was made between 1848 and 1850 due to its instability and its small size. A new church, in a

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style, named Saint-Amand replaced it at a cost of 40,129

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s. The building is 20 metres long, 18 metres wide and 15 metres tall. The clock-tower is 42.80 metres high.

Sources

* "Le cleugnottte", a periodic bulletin of the village of Luingne

References

External links

Histoire de Luingne

www.villagedeluingne.be
{{Authority control Former municipalities of Hainaut (province)