Berthen

Berthen
Coat of arms
Berthen
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Berthen
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkerque
Canton	Bailleul-Sud-Ouest
Intercommunality	Monts de Flandres
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Patricia Moone
Area1	5.18 km2 (2.00 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	501
• Density	97/km2 (250/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	59073 / 59270
Elevation	32–162 m (105–531 ft) (avg. 58 m or 190 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Berthen (in Dutch: Berten), located at the foot of Mont des Cats, is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

It is 2 km (1.2 mi) from the Belgian border, and 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Bailleul.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	613	—
1800	641	+4.6%
1806	693	+8.1%
1821	546	−21.2%
1831	584	+7.0%
1836	565	−3.3%
1841	600	+6.2%
1846	588	−2.0%
1851	589	+0.2%
1856	567	−3.7%
1861	583	+2.8%
1866	596	+2.2%
1872	590	−1.0%
1876	607	+2.9%
1881	660	+8.7%
1886	700	+6.1%
1891	685	−2.1%
1896	657	−4.1%
1901	644	−2.0%
1906	667	+3.6%
1911	605	−9.3%
1921	558	−7.8%
1926	546	−2.2%
1931	508	−7.0%
1936	537	+5.7%
1946	505	−6.0%
1954	510	+1.0%
1962	485	−4.9%
1968	426	−12.2%
1975	406	−4.7%
1982	439	+8.1%
1990	464	+5.7%
1999	517	+11.4%
2006	503	−2.7%
2009	501	−0.4%

Church of St Blaise

The ancient church dated from 1589. The church and village was destroyed on 28 May 1940 by German bombing.

The new church was begun in 1961 and consecrated 12 July 1964.

Heraldry

The arms of Berthen are blazoned : Or, a bordure azure, and on an inescutcheon argent, a lion gules armed, langued and crowned Or, within a bordure azure. (Caëstre and Berthen use the same arms.)

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file