Farciennes (BE)

Farciennes is a Walloon municipality (11,247 inhabitants end 2017) located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. In the past, Farciennes was an industrial city. It declined with the closure of the last Walloon coal mine, namely the Sainte-Catherine shaft of the Roton company, and the fall of the iron and steel industries, formerly large employers in the area between Liège and Charleroi. Today, the site of Roton, of which only the tower and the cloakroom remain, has been developed to accommodate small and medium-sized businesses. The small commune of Pironchamps was integrated in 1977 into Farciennes.

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Postal history before 1910

The FARCIENNES post office opened on 1 December 1850. It used a Perception code 161 - changed to 70 in 1856 - with bars(before 1864), and 123 with points before 1874. On 1 October 1853, a Distribution code 61!