Villers-la-Ville






Municipality in French Community, Belgium






























































Villers-la-Ville
Municipality

Marbais
Marbais



Villers-la-Ville is located in Belgium

Villers-la-Ville

Villers-la-Ville



Location in Belgium

The municipality of Villers-la-Ville in Walloon Brabant


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Coordinates: 50°35′N 04°32′E / 50.583°N 4.533°E / 50.583; 4.533Coordinates: 50°35′N 04°32′E / 50.583°N 4.533°E / 50.583; 4.533
Country Belgium
Community French Community
Region Wallonia
Province Walloon Brabant
Arrondissement Nivelles
Government

 • Mayor Emmanuel Burton (MR)
 • Governing party/ies
MR, PS
Area

 • Total 47.45 km2 (18.32 sq mi)
Population
(2018-01-01)[1]

 • Total 10,713
 • Density 230/km2 (580/sq mi)
Postal codes
1495
Area codes 071
Website www.villers-la-ville.be

Villers-la-Ville is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2006, Villers-la-Ville had a total population of 9,572. The total area is 47.45 km² which gives a population density of 202 inhabitants per km². The municipality includes also the villages of Marbais, Mellery, Sart-Dames-Avelines and Tilly.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Sites


    • 2.1 Postal history




  • 3 Transport


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





History


To be expanded



Sites




Ruins of Villers Abbey


To the north of the village lie the ruins of the Villers Abbey, which was one of the most important Cistercian abbeys of Europe. It was founded in 1147 and destroyed by the French republicans in 1795. In the ruined church attached to the abbey the tombstones of several dukes of Brabant of the 13th and 14th centuries are still to be found.[2]


The ruins also appear in the final episode of season 2 of sense8.



Postal history


The MARBAIS post office opened on 1 June 1838. It used postal distrbution code 33 with bars (before 1864), and code 235 with points before 1874.
The VILLERS-LA-VILLE post-office opened on 10 February 1865. SART-DAMES-AVELINES on 15 October 1877, TILLY on 8 November 1906.[3]


Postal codes in 1969:[4]



  • 6318 Marbais

  • 6320 Villers-la-Ville

  • 6321 Tilly

  • 6322 Mellery

  • 6328 Sart-Dames-Avelines


Code 1495 since at least October 1990.



Transport



  • Villers-la-Ville railway station


  • Tilly railway station, in the sub-municipality of Tilly



References





  1. ^ "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved 9 March 2019..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Villers la Ville". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 86.


  3. ^ Catalogue Spécialisé des Oblitérations Belges, 1849-1910, Nationale en Internationale Postzegelmanifestaties Antwerpen (NIPA), Antwerp, 1999.


  4. ^ Liste des Numéros Postaux, Administration des Postes, Bruxelles 1969.




External links




  • Media related to Villers-la-Ville at Wikimedia Commons


  • Official website (in French)












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