{{Short description|Municipality in Hainaut Province, Wallonia, Belgium}} {{Infobox Belgium municipality |name = Écaussinnes |native_name = {{native_name|wa|Les Scåssenes}} |picture = Ecaussinnes-Lalaing CH1bJPG.jpg |picture-legend = Écaussinnes-Lalaing Castle |map = Écaussinnes Hainaut Belgium Map.svg |map-legend = Location of Écaussinnes in Hainaut |arms = Blason ville be Ecaussinnes.svg |flag = Écaussines_Belgium.svg |province = Hainaut |arrondissement = Soignies |nis = 55050 |mayor = Xavier Dupont (PS) |majority = Vivre Écausinnes (VÉ), MR-CHE, ECOLO |postal-codes = 7190, 7191 |telephone-area = 067 |web = [http://www.ecaussinnes.be/ www.ecaussinnes.be] |coordinates = {{coord|50|34|N|04|11|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}} }} '''Écaussinnes''' ({{IPA|fr|ekosin}}; {{langx|pcd|Les Scassenes}}; {{langx|wa|Les Scåssenes}}) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
On 1 January 2018 Écaussinnes had a total population of 11,135. The total area is 34.77 km<sup>2</sup> which gives a population density of 320 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Écaussinnes-d'Enghien, Écaussinnes-Lalaing, and Marche-lez-Écaussinnes.
The city hosts the "Oberbayern" Festival each year in August, and hosted the Spring Blues Festival from 1988 to 2013.
==History== ''To be expanded''
Nearly 100 local citizens were saved from being killed by the German army by the intercession of Qian Xiuling. There is a street named ''Rue Perlinghi'' in her honour. "Perlinghi" was her married name.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
===Postal history===
The ECAUSSINNES post-office opened on 1 December 1850. It used a postal code 158 with bars (before 1864), and 105 with points before 1874. The ECAUSSINNES-D'ENGHIEN post-office opened on 13 November 1879, MARCHE-LEZ-ECAUSSINNES on 10 May 1880.<ref>Catalogue Spécialisé des Oblitérations Belges, 1849-1910, Nationale en Internationale Postzegelmanifestaties Antwerpen (NIPA), Antwerp, 1999.</ref>
Postal codes in 1969:<ref>Liste des Numéros Postaux, Administration des Postes, Bruxelles 1969.</ref> - 7180 Marche-lez-Écaussinnes - 7190 Écaussinnes-d'Enghien - 7191 Écaussinnes-Lalaing
Postal codes since at least 1990: 7190, 7191 Écaussinnes-Lalaing
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{{Geographic location |Centre = Écaussinnes |N = Braine-le-Comte |E = Seneffe |S = Le Rœulx |W = Soignies }} {{Hainaut}} {{Authority control}}
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