Chenogne
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 Belgium
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| Region : | Wallonia | ||
| Province : | Luxembourg | ||
| District : | Bastogne | ||
| Municipality : | Vaux-sur-Sûre | ||
| Coordinates : | 49 ° 59 ′ N , 5 ° 37 ′ E | ||
| Residents: | 142 pop. | ||
| Post Code: | 6640 | ||
| Prefix: | 061 | ||
Chenogne is a Belgian town in the municipality of Vaux-sur-Sûre in the province of Luxembourg .
location
Chenogne, which had 142 inhabitants in 2016, is located at the northern end of the municipality of Vaux-sur-Sûre. The village is about 8 km west of the city center of Bastogne , a small town on the border with Luxembourg , and about 6 km from the intersection of the motorway 26 (Belgium) ( European route 25 ) and the national road N4. The small hamlet of Mande-Sainte-Marie with 74 inhabitants in 2016 borders on Chenogne to the southwest .
The Chenogne houses are located in a small valley at an altitude of 480 to 500 m.
history
In the 17th and 18th centuries, Chenogne belonged to the parish of Mande-Sainte-Marie in the parish of what is now the desert town of Loupville under the Lords of Sibret . In the time of Napoleon, Chenogne was the canton seat in the Département des Forêts. In 1877, Chenogne was the seat of its own parish. From 1823 until the Belgian municipal reform in 1977, Chenogne was part of the municipality of Sibret and then came with this to the municipality of Vaux-sur-Sûre.
During the Second World War , Chenogne, like the rest of Belgium, was occupied by the Wehrmacht in May 1940 . In September 1944 it was captured by US troops, but it was occupied again by units of the Wehrmacht in the course of the Ardennes offensive and the siege of Bastogne in December 1945. US troops of the 11th US Armored Division recaptured the site on January 1, 1945 in heavy fighting . This led to the Chenogne massacre , in which several dozen Wehrmacht prisoners of war were shot by US soldiers. 23 residents of the village died in the fighting. Only one of the 32 buildings in the village remained standing; the church was also destroyed. In addition, 300 head of cattle were killed.
The village was rebuilt after the Second World War. The new church made of sandstone and with a slate roof was consecrated in 1948.
literature
- Roger Marquet: You sang, des ruines et des larmes. Chenogne 1944-1945 . Weyrich Éditions, Neufchâteau 2004.
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Schrijvers: The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe During World War II . Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 2014, pp. 203-204.
- ↑ Peter Schrijvers: The unknown dead. Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge . University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 2005, pp. 303-304.
- ↑ http://www.vaux-sur-sure-tourisme.be/nos-villages/chenogne/