Noeux les Mines

Noeux-les-Mines is a commune in the Pas-de Calais department within the Hauts de France vicinity of France. Noeux -les-Mines became first recorded within the 4th century as Vitriol. It becomes destroyed in 882 via the Normans, earlier than being rebuilt in the tenth century, when it became known as Noewe. It changed into a part of the small province of Gazelle, itself a part of the province of Artois, and was in particular an agricultural city with associated small activities incidental to farming, which include flour turbines, sugar mills and breweries.

The name become transformed from No ewe to Noeux les Bethune over the years, however have become Noeux les-Mines in 1887, a few years after the discovery of coal deposits in 1850, whilst the population numbered an insignificant 1100 inhabitants. From the outlet of the primary pit in 1851 the metropolis skilled a strong surge in populace up until 1962. All the pits have been closed down among 1956 and 1968. In 1996, the commune transformed one in every of its antique mine ramps into a synthetic ski slope, which operates at some point of the year. Within this same sports activities complicated is a boating lake.