Editing Écaussinnes

{{Short description|Municipality in Hainault Province, Belgium}}
{{Infobox Belgium municipality
|name             = Écaussinnes
|native_name      = {{native_name|wa|Les Scåssenes}}
|picture          = Ecaussinnes-Lalaing CH1bJPG.jpg
|picture-legend   = [[Écaussinnes-Lalaing Castle]]
|map              = Écaussinnes Hainaut Belgium Map.svg
|map-legend       = Location of Écaussinnes in Hainaut
|arms             = Blason ville be Ecaussinnes.svg
|flag             = Écaussines_Belgium.svg
|region           = {{BE-REG-WAL}}
|community        = {{BE-FR}}
|province         = {{BE-PROV-HT}}
|arrondissement   = [[Arrondissement of Soignies|Soignies]]
|nis              = 55050
|pyramid-date=
|0-19=
|20-64=
|65=
|foreigners=
|foreigners-date=
|mayor            = Xavier Dupont (PS)
|majority         = Vivre Écausinnes (VÉ), [[Reformist Movement|MR]]-CHE, [[ECOLO]]
|postal-codes     = 7190, 7191
|telephone-area   = 067
|web              = [http://www.ecaussinnes.be/ www.ecaussinnes.be]
|coordinates      = {{coord|50|34|N|04|11|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
}}
'''Écaussinnes''' ({{IPA|fr|ekosin}}; {{langx|pcd|Les Scassenes}}; {{langx|wa|Les Scåssenes}}) is a [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] of [[Wallonia]] located in the [[Hainaut Province|province of Hainaut]], [[Belgium]].

On 1 January 2018 Écaussinnes had a total population of 11,135. The total area is 34.77&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> which gives a [[population density]] of 320 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.

The municipality consists of the following [[deelgemeente|districts]]: [[Écaussinnes-d'Enghien]], [[Écaussinnes-Lalaing]], and [[Marche-lez-Écaussinnes]].

The city hosts the "Oberbayern" Festival each year in August, and hosted the Spring Blues Festival from 1988 to 2013.

==History==
''To be expanded''

Nearly 100 local citizens were saved from being killed by the German army by the intercession of [[Qian Xiuling]]. There is a street named ''Rue Perlinghi'' in her honour. "Perlinghi" was her married name.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

===Postal history===

The ECAUSSINNES post-office opened on 1 December 1850. It used a postal code 158 with bars (before 1864), and 105 with points before 1874. 
The ECAUSSINNES-D'ENGHIEN post-office opened on 13 November 1879, MARCHE-LEZ-ECAUSSINNES on 10 May 1880.<ref>Catalogue Spécialisé des Oblitérations Belges, 1849-1910, Nationale en Internationale
Postzegelmanifestaties Antwerpen (NIPA), Antwerp, 1999.</ref>

Postal codes in 1969:<ref>Liste des Numéros Postaux, Administration des Postes, Bruxelles 1969.</ref>
- 7180 Marche-lez-Écaussinnes
- 7190 Écaussinnes-d'Enghien
- 7191 Écaussinnes-Lalaing

Postal codes since at least 1990: 7190, 7191 Écaussinnes-Lalaing

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline}}

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Écaussinnes
|N = [[Braine-le-Comte]]
|E = [[Seneffe]]
|S = [[Le Rœulx]]
|W = [[Soignies]]
}}
{{Hainaut}}
{{Authority control}}

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