Broxeele

Broxeele
Coat of arms
Broxeele
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Broxeele
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkirk
Canton	Wormhout
Intercommunality	Yser
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Hervé Caux
Area1	3.77 km2 (1.46 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	304
• Density	81/km2 (210/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	59111 / 59470
Elevation	23–30 m (75–98 ft) (avg. 26 m or 85 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Broxeele (Dutch: Broksele) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

It is 20 km (12 mi) south of Dunkirk and also 20 km (12 mi) west of the Belgian border.

Name

The name is derived from the Dutch Broec sele (modern name: Broksele), which means "house (with one room) in the marsh" (in 1072: Brocsela). The name Brussels has exactly the same etymology.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	304	—
1800	303	−0.3%
1806	410	+35.3%
1821	395	−3.7%
1831	411	+4.1%
1836	407	−1.0%
1841	405	−0.5%
1846	362	−10.6%
1851	350	−3.3%
1856	342	−2.3%
1861	335	−2.0%
1866	344	+2.7%
1872	376	+9.3%
1876	373	−0.8%
1881	357	−4.3%
1886	362	+1.4%
1891	364	+0.6%
1896	336	−7.7%
1901	334	−0.6%
1906	327	−2.1%
1911	292	−10.7%
1921	279	−4.5%
1926	280	+0.4%
1931	268	−4.3%
1936	264	−1.5%
1946	262	−0.8%
1954	265	+1.1%
1962	249	−6.0%
1968	209	−16.1%
1975	190	−9.1%
1982	211	+11.1%
1990	270	+28.0%
1999	268	−0.7%
2006	306	+14.2%
2009	304	−0.7%

International relations

Broxeele and Brussels are sister cities and the city of Brussels has given a replica of Manneken Pis to Broxeele.

Heraldry

The arms of Broxeele are blazoned : Gules, a lion argent armed and langued Or. (Broxeele and Rubrouck use the same arms.)

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file