Baisieux

Baisieux is a commune in the Nord department of the Hauts-de-France region in northern France. It belongs to the European Metropolis of Lille and lies in Roman Flanders, east of Lille, on the border with Belgium, next to Tournai and the communes of Camphin-en-Pévèle, Chéreng, Gruson and Willems. The commune is drained by the Riez Simon, the Baisieux brook and the Saint-Calixte stream and lies within the Marque Deûle water management area. In 2023 it counted 5,545 inhabitants, mostly in individual houses, and about three quarters of its land is farmland. Baisieux gave its name to the pas de Baisieux, the rout of 29 April 1792 in which French troops broke at their first contact with the forces of the King of Bohemia and Hungary and General Théobald Dillon was killed. Its heritage includes the churches of Saint-Martin and of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in the hamlet of Sin, and former industrial buildings such as the Imperator refinery, the Masurel and Colombier weaving mill, the Balatum wallpaper and textile factory, the Duquennoy brewery and the Seydl malt house. Its climate is classed Cfb, a temperate type.