Hendecourt-lès-Ransart

French commune
name= Hendecourt-lès-Ransart
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Arras
canton= Beaumetz-lès-Loges
insee=62425
cp=62175
maire=Pierre Barrois
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm=Communauté de communes des Vertes vallées
longitude=2.73305555556
latitude=50.2058333333
alt moy=122 m
alt mini=90 m
alt maxi=124 m
hectares=221
km²=2,21
sans=125
date-sans=1999
dens=56|

Hendecourt-lès-Ransart is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais "département" in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A small farming village situated Convert|7|mi|km|0 south of Arras, on the D4 road.

History

The etymology of the name begins as ‘’’Hetnanicurtis’’, the small area (curtis) belonging to someone by the name of Hetna, in the Merovingian time. The name has changed over the years: Hendecourdelle (1300); Hendecourdel (1300, 1380, 1450 , 1457, 1552, 1556, 1574, 1578); Hendecordel (1338, 1400); Hennecourt (1500); Hendecorde (1565); Hennnecordel (1723); Hendecourt (1804); Hendecourt-Lez-Ransart in the 19th century and finally Hendecourt-Les-Ransart.
The first chateau was probably built around 1703 by Louis-Joseph Le Sergeant of Hendecourt on the site of an earlier manor house. The chateau and its farm were sold in 1878 to the Diesbach de Belleroche family from Fribourg Switzerland, who still own it today.
The entire village and chateau were completely destroyed between 1914-1918 then rebuilt. The old flour mill was dismantled in 1912.

Population

Places of interest

* The church of Notre-Dame, rebuilt along with the rest of the village, after World War I.
* The chateau.

See also

Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

External links

* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=26915&req=Hendecourt-lès-Ransart Hendecourt-lès-Ransart on the Quid website] fr

Notes

*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on June 23rd 2008."