Dommartin-la-Montagne

Dommartin-la-Montagne
region	Grand Est
Department	Meuse
Arrondissement	Verdun
Canton	Etain
Community association	Territoire de Fresnes-en-Woëvre
Coordinates	49 ° 2 '  N , 5 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 2 '  N , 5 ° 37'  E
height	286-387 m
surface	6.77 km 2
Residents	51 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	8 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	55160
INSEE code	55157

Dommartin-la-Montagne is a French commune with 51 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015: Lorraine ). The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Verdun , the canton Étain (until 2015: canton Fresnes-en-Woëvre ) and the municipality association Territoire de Fresnes-en-Woëvre .

geography

The municipality is located in the Lorraine Regional Nature Park, founded in 1974 . Dommartin-la-Montagne is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Combres-sous-les-Côtes in the north, Herbeuville in the northeast, Hannonville-sous-les-Côtes in the southeast and the communities of Dompierre-aux-Bois in the canton of Saint-Mihiel in the south , Lacroix-sur-Meuse in the southwest and Vaux-lès-Palameix in the northwest.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2004	2009	2016
Residents	72	61	56	49	52	45	62	67	51
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

• Saint-Martin church, built in 1847, destroyed in World War I and rebuilt in 1923

Saint Martin Church

Personalities

• Alain-Fournier (1886–1914), French writer, was killed on September 22, 1914 on the territory of the commune during the fighting at Les Éparges at the beginning of the First World War.

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 431-432.

Web links

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