The streets of Leers

Leers, until 1927, routes, mainly roads, had kept their original name given by their situation. It was during the council meeting of June 18, 1927 on the initiative of Mayor Emile DUEZ newly elected, a committee was formed to undertake the naming of streets and places of the town. The decision was taken at the council of November 12, 1927.

Shortly after, automobile André Citroën, House offers graciously Commons street names plates. The Council accepts the offer and entrusts to the road commission support to establish the number of plates to apply and the particulars to be included.

In 1934, by the decision of March 10, the municipal Council decided numbering of buildings with the laying of a plate on each house. You should know that in France the house numbering is left to the mayor of the town. There is no system imposed. We meet two kinds of numbers: sequential and metric.

In the sequential numbering (one adopted Leers) buildings are numbered from 2 to 2 since the beginning of the road. Even numbers are grouped on one side of the street, usually on the right from a fixed point, close to city center and odd numbers on the other side. This numbering should be already urbanized areas or when the space between houses is insufficient for other buildings fit.

In the metric numbering system, building numbers represent the distance, usually in meters, separating them from the beginning of the road. This system is best suited for sparsely built or undergoing urbanization, because every new building built requires no change following the house numbers.

Until the 1950s, the mapping of streets and lanes of Leers was little changed. Then, certainly a result of population explosion after the 2nd World War, new neighborhoods have sprung up with the construction of new residences. Thus nearly a hundred ways (streets, alleys, trails ...) were created giving a totally different aspect to our town.

In 2010 our city had 171 tracks, residences and hamlets.

Rue Victor Hugo

Decision of November 12, 1927

Previously it was the street of Audenaerde and again before Audenaerde road or local road No. 3 including the completion of paving, to Belgium, was approved September 27, 1859. At the council meeting of November 12, 1927 devoted to the naming of streets, it was decided to separate this lane by 2, from the intersection with Roubaix street. The portion going to Leers-Nord has been named Rue Victor Hugo.

Victor Marie Hugo, born February 26, 1802 in Besancon and died May 22, 1885 in Paris, is a writer, playwright, politician, academician and public intellectual French. It is considered one of the greatest writers of the French romantic.

His work is monumental including Ruy Blas (1838), Lucrèce Borgia (1833), Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), Les Misérables (1862).

His choice of both moral and political, his work out of the ordinary, have made him an iconic figure that the 3rd Republic has posthumously honored with a state funeral that accompanied the transfer of his remains to the Pantheon May 31, 1885.

Rue de GIBRALTAR Droite

Decision of November 12, 1927.

Previously, the pavement Gibraltar street right, which had replaced the green route to 1703 names since a close look at this year's plan, there is in nomenclature: " Planty fur le vert chemin" and " Planty fur le chemin de la Vexte"and it was discovered below the farm's Horne:" chemin de Toufflers vert "

In order to facilitate relations with Néchin, the Mayor Henri Salembier decided to build the local road No. 2 says of Gibraltar ". The reception of this work took place September 27, 1859.

At the meeting of July 6, 1993 City Council corrected a minor inconsistency. In effect until that date the streets of Gibraltar stopped right at the Rue du Capitaine Picavet was going well until the limit of Toufflers (the farm's Horne). With this decision the streets of Gibraltar went right up Toufflers, Rue du Capitaine Picavet stopping at the intersection.