Editing Lobbes

{{Infobox Belgium municipality
|name=Lobbes
|native_name={{native_name|wa|Lôbe}}
|picture=Lobbes JPG001.jpg
|picture-legend=Lobbes on the river Sambre
|map=Lobbes Hainaut Belgium Map.svg
|map-legend=Location of Lobbes in Hainaut
|arms=
|flag=Lobbes_Belgium.svg
|region={{BE-REG-WAL}}
|community={{BE-FR}}
|province={{BE-PROV-HT}}
|arrondissement=[[Arrondissement of Thuin|Thuin]]
|nis=56044
|pyramid-date=
|0-19=
|20-64=
|65=
|foreigners=
|foreigners-date=
|mayor=Lucien Bauduin ([[Socialist Party (Belgium)|PS]])
|majority=[[Socialist Party (Belgium)|PS]] - LOB2.0 ([[Reformist Movement|MR]]) - [[Ecolo]]
|postal-codes=6540, 6542, 6543
|telephone-area=071
|web=[http://www.lobbes.be/ www.lobbes.be]
|coordinates = {{coord|50|21|N|04|15|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
}}
'''Lobbes''' ({{IPA|fr|lɔb|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Manestra-Lobbes.wav}}; {{langx|wa|Lôbe}}) is a [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] of [[Wallonia]] located in the [[Hainaut Province|province of Hainaut]], [[Belgium]]. 

On 1 January 2006 Lobbes had a total population of 5,499. The total area is 32.08&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> which gives a [[population density]] of 171 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.

The municipality consists of the following [[deelgemeente|districts]]: [[Bienne-lez-Happart]], Lobbes, [[Mont-Sainte-Geneviève]], and [[Sars-la-Buissière]].

The town grew up round [[Lobbes Abbey]], a religious house established here in about 650.

The tramway of the [[ASVi museum|ASVi]] runs through Lobbes.

==Births==
* [[Jonas van Genechten]], professional road bicycle racer
* [[Alfred Wotquenne]], musical bibliographer
* [[Romain Zingle]], professional cyclist

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Lobbes
|N  = [[Anderlues]]
|NE = [[Fontaine-l'Évêque]]
|SE = [[Thuin]]
|SW = [[Merbes-le-Château]]
|NW = [[Binche]]
}}
{{Hainaut}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Lobbes| ]]
[[Category:Municipalities of Hainaut (province)]]


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