Ingelmunster

Agricultural, residential and industrial municipality of 10,694 inhabitants and 1,615 ha (1996).

Located in Zandlemig Vlaanderen. Flat relief (church sill at 17.64 m); highest point in the extreme S. on the hamlet "Hogen Doorn" (38 m) with the so-called Doornmolen. Fertile soil, intersected from W. to E. by the Mandel, also by a number of streams, including the Deve (border with Meulebeke), the Lokke- (border with Izegem), the Lendelede- and the Oudebeek (border with Hulste). In the N.W., however, sandy soil, where, according to maps, up to XIX quite large forest area, this in connection with the forest and field areas of Ardooie. Nature reserve "Mandelhoek" between canal and Mandel.

First mentioned as "Ingelmoenstre" in 1099, which is etymologically explicable as an English monastery (Anglomonasterium) or monastery on the corner (the Germanic sting) of the seigneury. English missionaries are said to have Christianized this area with the original name "Hulsthout" in VII A, possibly at the request of St. Amandus, the later patron saint of Ingelmunster. Ingelmunster belongs successively to the diocese of Tournai (until 1801), Ghent (until 1834) and Bruges.

In 1165, the bishop of Tournai gave the right of patronage of the church to the chapter of Harelbeke.

Robert the Frisian, Count of Flanders in 1071-1093, built the castle on the ruins of the English (?) monastery from VII, which was plundered and burned by the Normans in 882. The castle, located at the strategic intersection of the Mandel and the Kortrijk-Bruges road, is therefore also called the "Key of Flanders". In 1297, for example, Ingelmunster played an important role in the battle between the Count of Flanders and the French king Philip the Fair; l.g. promised the Bruges aldermen in the castle to spare the relic of the Holy Blood. The castle and the surrounding seigneuries are successively owned by the family of Rodhes (XIII); the houses of Gistel (XIV) and of Burgundy (XV); from 1583 of the Saxon de Plotho family, who acquired the title of baron in 1643. In 1825, the French Count de Montblanc inherited the castle and grounds. In 1986, the castle passed into the hands of the local brewery Van Honsebrouck.

The important seigneury of Ingelmunster - ca. 1680 one hundred and eighty estates in Oostrozebeke, Wielsbeke, Waregem and Sint-Eloois-Vijve - had the lower, middle and higher jurisdiction cf. the gallows field in the Land Book of 1736. Administratively, Ingelmunster was part of the castellany of Kortrijk.

Around 1452, the village was burned down when rebellious Ghent residents attacked the castle in vain. In XVI and XVII, Ingelmunster suffered greatly from political and religious-political conflicts, which spared neither the village nor the castle. In 1580 at the so-called "Battle of Ingelmunster. (cf. tapestry of 1877-1878 in the town hall) in the vicinity of the Weststraat, the Spanish troops and those of William of Orange face each other.

Ingelmunster owes its name of Brigandsgemeente to the so-called . Brigand's Sunday., the peasant revolt of October 1798 against the general law of conscription under the French occupation.

During both world wars, Ingelmunster served as an important railway junction and local supply centre for the German occupying forces. W.O.

I. Establishment of the headquarters of the so-called Northern armies in the castle; construction of two airfields (cf. remainder at Meulebekestraat no. 112); limited war damage during. WWII. Greater damage due to the German bombardment of May 1940.

The Land Book of 1736 shows a great interconnectedness between the walled castle (cf. Kortrijkstraat) and the village centre. To the E. of the church and castle - on the site of the current town hall - until the beginning of the 1980s was the so-called "Castle Farm" with house, large barn from ca. 1755 and dovecote from 1634, and until 1940 the so-called "Castle Mill" (cf. Oostrozebekestraat). Furthermore, on the map of the Land Book are .den heirwegh van Brugghe. (cf. Bruggestraat) and the current Gravinnestraat and part of the Oostrozebekestraat, with a fairly concentrated building. The close relationship between the church and the lords of the castle is highlighted by the so-called "Barony", a separate chapel from the St. Amandus' Church where the lords heard mass.

Two avenues connected in L-shape important properties such as the so-called "Ingelmunsterbos" in the N. and the so-called "Ermitage" in the W. of the municipality with the castle park. The "Ermitage", an XVIII hermitage, was transformed into a forester's house in XIX. The forest was completely cut down in XIX and XX A, the forester's house was demolished around 1960. The beeches in the Beukendreef (on a figurative map of 1664 "Ermitage-dreve") were cut down around 1910 and replaced by poplars, in 1986 by linden trees (cf. Stationsstraat). The coat of arms with central deer's head, lilies and morians, sometimes held by two lions, from the de Plotho family later taken over by the de Montblanc family can be found in the castle, in the church, the burial chapel, etc.

Further evolution determined by the development of the road network. In 1752, Ingelmunster was bisected from S. to N. by the new Kortrijk-Bruges road (cf. Kortrijkstraat/ Stationsplein/ Stationsstraat/ Bruggestraat); which runs parallel to the still partly preserved old, winding track (cf. Heirweg Zuid and Noord). Extension of the . Rue du Bruxelles. as an E. exit road to Oostrozebeke ca. 1849 (cf. Oostrozebekestraat). In 1970-1997, the Ringlaan was constructed in several phases.

The railway line Bruges-Kortrijk - with station in Ingelmunster as a result of the frantic efforts of the city council and the lord of the castle - was built in 1846-1847 by the English "Société anonyme des Chemins de Fer de la Flandre Occidentale". In the vicinity of the station, the district "Kapelle. (cf. Stationsplein, Izegemstraat). Train connection Ingelmunster-Tielt in 1854 (until 1944) and Ingelmunster-Anzegem in 1866 (until 1973).

The Roeselare-Leie canal, which cuts through Ingelmunster from W. to E., was built in 1863-1872 with a wide bend around the castle park. This was eliminated during the widening in 1956-1960 and 1973-1974, which indicates the waning power of the lords of the castle. The relatively recent water-related industry is limited to a few animal feed and concrete companies. It is said that earlier industrialization was held back because the baron refused to sell land. On the other hand, in 1856 the lord of the castle founded his own carpet manufactory. the castle gate (cf. Stationsstraat).

In XIX, a number of weaving mills are established on the roads. The restoration company Vandekerckhove, now N.V. Monument on the Oostrozebekestraat, was founded in 1885.

Industry remains mainly agricultural. Around 1875, for example, Ingelmunster had eleven windmills, mainly combined windmills and windoil mills. The very high hull of the so-called "Doornmolen" (cf. Heirweg Zuid) still dominates the surrounding landscape. The hull of the so-called "Zandbergmolen" (cf. Bruggestraat) was truncated around 1930 and converted into a house. Around 1900, the centre of Ingelmunster had four breweries and one chicory roastery. Flax processing was especially prominent in the S.E. corner, in the vicinity of the Mandel. In the 1920s, the Mandelroten was abandoned for 'blue rets' and hot water mills. L.g. were built in the 1950s, one is still in operation (cf. Oostrozebekestraat). Construction of industrial zones on the Bruggestraat and Meulebekestraat in the 1950s-1960s.

Village centre formed by the Bruggestraat, Gravinnestraat and Weststraat, fanned out since XIX d/ XX a on the Izegem, Kortrijk, Meulebeke and Oostrozebekestraat.

Castle with castle park in the centre of the village, to the N. of the canal. The current Markt was only created in 1970 when the two rows of houses (n // church) on the Kerkstraat were demolished; in 1982-1984, construction of a new town hall under the direction of engineer-architect L. Morlion (Ingelmunster) to the E. of the church. Until 1898 the municipal council meetings took place in the inn "De Arend" on the Bruggestraat, from 1898 to 1910 in the café "Het Damberd" on the Gravinnestraat, and from 1910 to 1984 in the Van Ooteghem-Catulle house which was converted into a town hall. on the Bruggestraat. The cemetery around the church was preserved until 1887. From 1859 onwards, a new cemetery was built on the Schoolstraat on the initiative of the de Montblanc family. Construction of a monumental burial chapel by this noble family in 1865 (cf. Schoolstraat).

Social housing on the Bollewerpstraat, Hinnebilkstraat, Meulebeke and Oostrozebekestraat, built from 1923 by the Cooperative Company "De Mandelbeek", founded in 1922. Social housing from the 1950s in the so-called 1950s was also built. Sint-Amandswijk, from the years 1960-1970 a.o. in the so-called Westwijk (cf. Weststraat). Villa construction from XX B in a number of new districts, mainly to the W. of the road.

In the 1950s and 1960s, two new parishes were founded. The parish of Our Lady (1959), in front of Ingelmunster to the S. of the canal (district . Kapelle.), in 1955-1956 temporarily isolated from the St.-Amandus parish due to works on the canal. The Sacred Heart parish (1964) for the N. of Ingelmunster, so-called "De Hoogte", where there has been a Sacred Heart School since 1906.

Agricultural activity is currently concentrated mainly to the E. of the Ringlaan. The mostly non-historical nameplates at the farmsteads go back to naming campaigns in 1912, 1944 and 1978. Scattered farmstead with loose, low XIX components under tiled gable roofs U- or L-shaped grouped around the yard; A few more partially walled sites going back to important farmsteads. Asten are rather sporadic (Kweekstraat no. 50, so-called . D. heerlijkhede van Deefakker. cf. Meulebekestraat no. 112). A few small peasant workers' houses, often in single buildings, could still be absorbed, but are now rapidly disappearing. Here and there, on the road or at a yard entrance, a (XIX) chapel, including some with curious raping.

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