Sallaumines

Sallaumines
Commune
Town hall of Sallaumines
Coat of arms
Location of Sallaumines
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Coordinates: 50°25′13″N2°51′47″E / 50.4203°N 2.8631°E / 50.4203; 2.8631
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Lens
Canton	Avion
Intercommunality	CA Lens-Liévin
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Christian Pedowski [1]
Area 1	3.82 km2 (1.47 sq mi)
Population  (2022) [2]	9,633
• Density	2,520/km2 (6,530/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62771 /62430
Elevation	27–54 m (89–177 ft) (avg. 43 m or 141 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Sallaumines (French pronunciation: [salomin] ; Picard : Sallaumine or Sallau) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France. ^[3]

Administration

Sallaumines belongs to the Lens-Liévin intercommunality which consists of 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabitants.

History

The history of the area remains marked by the Courrières mine disaster which caused 1099 deaths on 10 March 1906 on the territories of Billy-Montigny, Méricourt and Sallaumines.

On 18 June 1916 Max Immelmann, the first German World War I flying ace, was killed by the British 25 Squadron Royal Flying Corps while flying over the area.

It was in the town of Montigny-en-Gohelle, in the Pas-de-Calais region, at pit number 7 of the Dourges Mining Company, that the strike began, led by Émilienne Mopty and Michel Brulé (1912-1942), depriving the Germans of 93,000 tons of coal for nearly two weeks. This was one of the first acts of collective resistance to the Nazi occupation in France and the largest in terms of numbers, resulting in 414 arrests in three waves, the deportation of 270 people, and the execution of 130 miners at the Citadel of Arras. After the war, the town was also at the center of three national events: the Battle for Coal (1945-1947), followed by the miners' strikes of 1947 and 1948.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	14,768	—
1975	12,971	−1.84%
1982	12,081	−1.01%
1990	11,036	−1.12%
1999	10,677	−0.37%
2007	10,466	−0.25%
2012	9,621	−1.67%
2017	9,715	+0.19%
Source: INSEE [4]

Geography

Its nearby communes are Méricourt to the southeast, Avion to the southwest, Lens to the west, Loison-sous-Lens to the north, Harnes to the northeast and Montigny-en-Gohelle to the east.

Transportation

The A21 motorway passes north of the town. Sallaumines has a train station (Gare de Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Lille, and another one (Gare de Pont-de-Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Valenciennes.

Twin towns - sister cities

Sallaumines is twinned with: ^[5]

• Lugau, Germany
• Torez, Ukraine
• Trbovlje, Slovenia
• Wodzisław Śląski, Poland

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. INSEE commune file
4. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
5. "Villes jumelées". ville-sallaumines.fr (in French). Sallaumines. Retrieved 18 November 2019.

External links

• Communauté d'Agglomération de Lens-Liévin (in French)