Tourcoing (Municipality, Nord, France)

Toerkonje

Last modified: 2013-12-28 by ivan sache
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Flag of Tourcoing - Image by Ivan Sache, 5 May 2002

• Presentation of Tourcoing
• Flag of Tourcoing
• Tourcoing Lille Métropole

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• France
• Nord (Department, France)

Presentation of Tourcoing

The municipality of Tourcoing (in Dutch, Toerkonje; 91,923 inhabitants - Tourquennois - in 2010; 1,516 ha) is part of Lille MŽtropole CommunautŽ urbaine (LMCU), an intermunicipal authority formerly known as Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing. Tourcoing is the capital of wool industry in France (c.11,500 workers). One third of French carded wool is manufactured in Tourcoing, which is also renown for its carpet, clothing and hosiery factories. In the past, wool was transported in wheelbarrows, in French brouettes, and the inhabitants of the town were nicknamed broutteux.
The belltower (85 m) of the St. Christophe's Church hosts a peal of 49 bells. In 1971, a bell ringing class was opened in the Music Academy of Tourcoing.

Tourcoing is the birth town of the French musician Albert Roussel (1869-1937), who wrote several symphonies, symphonic poems (Évocations, 1911), ballet musics (Le Festin de l'Araignée, 1913, Bacchus et Ariane, 1931; Aeneas, 1935), orchestral suites (Suite en Fa, 1926), and opéra ballets (Padmavati, 1923). Roussel is one of the best French symphonists of the beginning of the 20th century. Before being a musician, he was a Cadet in the French Navy, and his travel impressions inspired his music. The house in which Roussel spent most of his youth in now the Municipal Museum of Tourcoing.

Ivan Sache, 5 May 2002

Flag of Tourcoing

The flag of Tourcoing is a banner of the municipal arms. It has a white field with a black cross and three yellow discs in each arm of the cross.
The flag is used, along with several other flags combining white and green colours, by the supporters of the volley-ball club of Tourcoing.

Ivan Sache, 5 May 2002

Tourcoing Lille Métropole

Flag of TLM - Image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2003

The flag hanging on the wall of the sport hall during volley-ball matches of Tourcoing L(ille) M(étropole) is a green-white chequy of 5 rows x 10 columns, starting with a green square in the upper left corner. Green and white are also the colours of the players' clothes.

Ivan Sache, 4 May 2003