Hamme-Mille | |
Flag Size: | 120x100px |
Pushpin Map: | Belgium#Europe |
Pushpin Label: | Hamme-Mille |
Coordinates: | 50.78°N 4.7194°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Belgium |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Walloon Brabant |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Beauvechain |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Hamme-Mille is a district of the municipality of Beauvechain, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.
The settlement existed at least from 1146. In 1235, Henry II, Duke of Brabant founded a Cistercian abbey for nuns, the Valduc Abbey, in Hamme. Today nothing remains of the abbey, which was dismantled and sold as rubble following the French Revolution. On its foundations a large country house was built in 1867 and designed by . In Mille there is also a well-preserved medieval chapel, dedicated to Saint Cornelius. It was built in 1460.[1]