Marchiennes

Commune in Hauts-de-France, France

Coat of arms

Location of Marchiennes

(2020–2026) Claude Merly^[1]Area

21.44 km² (8.28 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

4,539 • Density210/km² (550/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

59375 /59870

Elevation15–21 m (49–69 ft)
(avg. 18 m or 59 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Marchiennes (French pronunciation: [maʁʃjɛn]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.^[3] It was fictionally portrayed in Émile Zola's Germinal.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	3,375	—
1975	3,267	−0.46%
1982	3,564	+1.25%
1990	4,164	+1.96%
1999	4,641	+1.21%
2007	4,706	+0.17%
2012	4,697	−0.04%
2017	4,590	−0.46%
Source: INSEE^[4]

Heraldry

The arms of Marchiennes are blazoned :

Or, on an escarbuncle sable a ruby gules. (Abscon, Beuvry-la-Forêt, Erre, Fenain, Marchiennes, Ronchin, Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes and Wandignies-Hamage use the same arms.)

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE