Templeuve-en-Pévèle (, before 2015: ''Templeuve'') is a
commune in the
Nord
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department in northern
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Name
The commune is recorded as Templovium in 877, but was subsequently called Templeuve. The name may be derived from ''Templum Jovis'' meaning ''The Temple of Jupiter''. In October 2014, the council voted to change the commune's name to "Templeuve-en-Pévèle". The name change took effect 16 November 2015.
Décret n° 2015-1487
16 November 2015
Population
Heraldry
Windmill
Templeuve-en-Pévèle is the location of a windmill. The windmill tower is first mentioned in 1328 in rent documents of Anchin Abbey
Anchin Abbey was a Rule of St. Benedict, Benedictine monastery founded in 1079 in the commune of Pecquencourt in what is now the Nord (French department), Nord department of France.
Geography
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, as the "Moulin de Viertain". It was burned during the war in 1616, and completely rebuilt. It stopped productive work in 1908, and was damaged during the First World War
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by people wanting wood. Its restoration began in 1980 and the sails were added in 1985. It is now open to visits.
It was successful in the hands of the families De la Porte dit d'Espierres, Robert, Jacops d'Aigrement before the French Revolution. It was then owned by the Havet and Band families. The mill, whose tower was erected at the end of the seventeenth century, remained active until the death of miller Jean-Baptiste Houze on 21 November 1907. His widow completed grinding the last bags of grain and then abandoned the mill.
Jean Bruggeman, the president of the Regional Association 'des Amis des Moulins', inspired the municipality of Templeuve-en-Pévèle to acquire the mill in 1973. The restoration was completed on 15 June 1985, and it was opened by the mayor, Robert Vandelanoitte, and Alphonse Dhelin, the Assistant for Cultural Affairs.
The post-house design means that the internal mechanism and upper structure rests on a pivot, which rotates when wind direction changes.
*Tower Height:
*Diameter:
*Thickness of walls: at the base - at the summit
*Sails: wide
*Mechanism Two pairs of millstones
**The Large Spinning Wheel: in diameter.
**Rouet Little in diameter
*Wood used : oak, elm, iroko for the mechanisms. Chestnut for the shingles
See also
*Communes of the Nord department
The following is a list of the 647 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):
References
Communes of Nord (French department)
Nord communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
French Flanders
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