Douaumont
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| local community | Douaumont-Vaux | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meuse | |
| Arrondissement | Verdun | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 13 ' N , 5 ° 26' E | |
| Post Code | 55100 | |
| Former INSEE code | 55164 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 Chapel in place of the destroyed Saint-Hilaire church |
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Douaumont is a village and a commune déléguée in the French commune Douaumont-Vaux with 7 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), which is near Verdun in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ).
This community no longer has any inhabitants. Douaumont is a former village that was completely destroyed in the First World War during the Battle of Verdun and was never rebuilt. It shares this fate with eight other villages: Beaumont-en-Verdunois , Bezonvaux , Cumières , Fleury , Haumont , Louvemont , Ornes and Vaux . After the end of the war, France decided not to colonize the village any more. The floor was full of duds and remnants of poison gas. In addition, the ground and the layer immediately below the ground were littered with unburied fallen. Fallen soldiers, both German and French, were buried in the Douaumont ossuary .
On January 1, 2019, the municipality of Douaumont merged with Vaux-devant-Damloup to form the Commune nouvelle Douaumont-Vaux. Since then it has had the status of a Commune déléguée.
Douaumont fortress
Construction of Fort de Douaumont began in 1885 and ended in 1913. The fortress stood on one of the highest points in the area. In February 1916, German soldiers occupied the fortress. It was not until October 1916 that French troops were able to retake Fort Douaumont at great cost on both sides.
See also
- Zone rouge
- The great illusion , feature film by Jean Renoir, 1937, also takes place in the fortress
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 174-182.
