Bruay-la-Buissière

Commune

A general view of Bruay-La-Buissière

Coat of arms

Bruay-la-Buissière

Location within Hauts-de-France region

Bruay-la-Buissière

Coordinates: 50°28′55″N 2°32′55″E / 50.4819°N 2.5486°ECoordinates: 50°28′55″N 2°32′55″E / 50.4819°N 2.5486°E

Country

Artois

Government

• Mayor (2008–2014)

Alain Wacheux

Area¹

16.35 km² (6.31 sq mi)

Population (2009)²

23,621

• Density

1,400/km² (3,700/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

62178 /62700

Elevation

30–106 m (98–348 ft)
(avg. 98 m or 322 ft)

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

²Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bruay-la-Buissière is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.

A former coalmining town some 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Béthune and 30 miles (48.3 km) southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D57 and the N47 roads.

With four coal mines, it was the headquarters of the Bruay Mining Company. The coal mines closed during the 1960s, to be replaced by light industrial work and chemical factories. In April 1972 the murder of miner's daughter Brigitte Dewevre became a politicized event when Pierre Leroy, a local middle-class lawyer associated with the local mining company, was arrested: La Cause du Peuple, the paper of the Maoist Gauche prolétarienne, publicized the case with the headline 'Bruay: And Now They Are Massacring Our Children!'

The two places of Bruay-en-Artois and La Buissiere were joined as one commune in 1987.

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