Lessines (French pronunciation: [lɛsin] (listen); Dutch: Lessen, Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlɛsə(n)] (listen); Picard: Lissene, Walloon: Lissene) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. As of the 2014 census, The municipality's total population was 18,637. The total area is 72.29 km² (27.91 square miles) which gives a population density of 247 inhabitants per km².

Lessines Lissene (Picard) Lessen (Dutch)
Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Lessines
Lessines Location in Belgium Location of Lessines in Hainaut
Coordinates: 50°43′N 03°50′E
Country	Belgium
Community	French Community
Region	Wallonia
Province	Hainaut
Arrondissement	Ath
Government
• Mayor	Pascal De Handschutter (PS)
• Governing party/ies	PS - ENSEMBLE (MR) - OSER cdH
Area
• Total	72.67 km2 (28.06 sq mi)
Population  (2018-01-01)[1]
• Total	18,552
• Density	260/km2 (660/sq mi)
Postal codes	7860 Lessines 7861 Papignies 7861 Wannebecq 7862 Ogy 7863 Ghoy 7864 Deux-Acren 7866 Bois-de-Lessines 7866 Ollignies
Area codes	068
Website	www.lessines.be

The municipality consists of the following districts: Bois-de-Lessines, Deux-Acren, Ghoy, Lessines, Ogy, Ollignies, Papignies, and Wannebecq.

Lessines is a municipality of Picardy Wallonia.

It is primarily known as the birthplace of the Surrealist painter René Magritte (1898 – 1967).

History

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Postal history

The Lessines post office opened before 1830. It used postal code 71 with bars (before 1864), and 214 with points before 1874. Deux-Acren post office opened on 15 May 1866. It used postal code 104 with points before 1874. The Papignies post office opened on 18 February 1880, Ghoy and Ollignies on 25 May 1905, and Ogy on 5 November 1907.[2]

Postal codes in 1969:[3] -7850 Ollignies -7851 Bois-de-Lessines -7860 Lessines -7861 Papignies -7862 Ogy -7863 Ghoy -7870 Deux-Acren

Postal codes since at least 1990: -7860 Lessines -7861 Papignies, Wannebecq (not opened in 1969) -7862 Ogy -7863 Ghoy -7864 Deux-Acren -7866 Bois-de-Lessines, Ollignies

Culture

The Underwear Museum, created by Jan Bucquoy, is in Lessines; it moved from Brussels to Lessines in 2016.[4]

Images

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  Quarry
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  Porch keystone of the Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose ("Hospital of Our Lady with the Rose")
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  "Lessinia Vrbs" from the book "Het steden-Boek" by Joan Blaeu c. ± 1649 (Amsterdam).

References

External links

• Media related to Lessines at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website (in French)
• Another site, with further information on the city (in French, Dutch, and English)
• Another site, with information in French

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