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NIVELLES (Flem. Nyvel)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 718 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NIVELLES (Flem. Nyvel) , a town of Belgium in the province of Brabant, situated on the Thines 19 m. S. of Brussels. Pop. (1904) 12,109. It is a busy little place with many
industries
 , notably the manufacture of parchment. The town is supposed to owe its origin to the foundation of a convent on the spot by Itta or Iduberge, wife of Pippin of Landen. The Romanesque
church
  of St Gertrude, named after Itta's daughter,
dates
  from the nth century, but has been badly restored and is disfigured by a heavy tower. On the top of the tower is the effigy of a man in iron who strikes the
hours
  with a
hammer
 . He is called by the townspeople Jean de Nivelles, a celebrated baron of the 15th century whose title eventually became merged in that of the
count
  de
Hornes
  (Horn). The
church
  is supposed to occupy the site of Itta's convent. Close to Nivelles is Seneffe, where
Conde
  defeated William of Orange in 1674, and at Nivelles itself the French under Marceau defeated the Austrians in 1794.


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