Walhain Explained

Walhain
Picture-Legend:Ruins of Walhain castle (12th century)
Map:Walhain Brabant-Wallon Belgium Map.svg
Map-Legend:The municipality in the province of Walloon Brabant
Arms:Blason Walhain.svg
Flag:Walhain vlag.svg
Arrondissement:Nivelles
Nis:25124
Mayor:Xavier Dubois (cdH)
(Avenir Communal)
Majority:Avenir Communal - Ecolo
Parties:Avenir Communal
WAL-1
Ecolo
Postal-Codes:1457
Telephone-Area:010
Web:www.walhain.be
Coordinates:50.6333°N 46°W

Walhain (in French pronounced as /walɛ̃/; Walloon: Walin) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. It consists of the former municipalities of Nil-Saint-Vincent-Saint-Martin, Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert and Walhain-Saint-Paul.

The Belgian National Geographic Institute, the Belgian national cartographical service, calculated that the geographical centre of Belgium lay in this municipality, in Nil-Saint-Vincent at 50.6411°N 4.6681°W.[1]

Villages of the municipality

Walhain-Saint-Paul, Walhain, Sart-lez-Walhain, Nil-Saint-Vincent, Nil-Saint-Martin, Nil-Pierreux, Lerinnes, Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert, Tourinnes les Ourdons et Perbais

Sports

Walhain has two successful national division sport teams:

Firstly, they have a semi-professional football club, RFC Wallonia Walhain CG playing in the Promotion D, which is the 4th tier of Belgian football league. They unfortunately couldn't avoid relegation in 2007 after more than 10 years in the third division.

They also have a good volleyball club, with both women's and men's teams playing in the second national division (the first division in Belgium being professional).

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Centre géographique - Le Site . French . Municipality of Walhain . 2007-03-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070514215855/http://www.walhain.be/template.asp?m=2&sm=3&smenu=Centre+g%E9ographique&tmp=4 . 2007-05-14.