Dun-les-Places
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Nièvre | |
| Arrondissement | Château-Chinon (Ville) | |
| Canton | Corbigny | |
| Community association | Morvan Sommets et Grands Lacs | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 17 ' N , 4 ° 1' E | |
| height | 365-651 m | |
| surface | 45.1 km 2 | |
| Residents | 351 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 8 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 58230 | |
| INSEE code | 58106 | |
 Monument to the Murdered: Monument des fusillés |
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Dun-les-Places is a French municipality with 351 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Nièvre in the region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté . The community gained notoriety through a massacre of the local population by the German occupiers, during which 27 civilians were murdered.
geography
Dun-les-Places is located in the Morvan , which geologically belongs to the Massif Central . The nearest town is Saulieu to the east, 22 kilometers away . Neighboring communes (starting clockwise from the north) are Quarré-les-Tombes , Saint-Agnan , Saint-Brisson , Gouloux , Montsauche-les-Settons , Brassy and Marigny-l'Église .
Surname
The name Dun comes from the Celtic , "Dunum" means a fortified place.
history
In the area of the hamlet of Vieux-Dun (German: Alt-Dun), which is just under three kilometers from the main town of Dun-les-Places, there was an oppidum of the Gallic tribe of the Haedu . The approximately triangular complex, covering 265 hectares, was protected on two sides by steep slopes sloping towards water bodies. Traces of two fortification walls can be seen on the south side. The inner wall is often Neolithic attributed to what the Fund an arrowhead from flint seems to confirm. The Gallic outer wall, almost two kilometers south of it, probably dates from the time of the Gallic War .
Philip II had a castle built in the Middle Ages at the height of the first wall destroyed. The church in Vieux-Dun, presumably consecrated to Saint Martin in the 12th century , is still in ruins. Due to its small size, it was abandoned in the 19th century in favor of a new church in what is now the main town. In the woods near Vieux-Dun is the Saint-Marc chapel, which is also likely to date from the 12th century. For a long time it was the destination of pilgrims and has been renovated several times, but its furnishings have been deprived in the meantime.
Until the middle of the 19th century, today's Vieux-Dun (then only: Dun) was the main town of the municipality, while Dun-les-Places was only a dependent hamlet. In 1854 the parish council refused to pay the high cost of renovating the Saint-Martin church. Augustin-Xavier Feuillet, a former lieutenant captain and mayor since 1827, then donated the area "les places" to the community and had a new church built there at his own expense. The Sainte-Amélie church in Dun-les-Places was consecrated in 1851 and has been a listed building since 1991. The granite cross in front of the main entrance came from the Saint-Martin church and dates from the 16th century.
Despite protests and petitions from the population, the municipal administration was also moved to Dun-les-Places in the middle of the 19th century. In 1914, the Bishop of Nevers suggested that pilgrimages to the Saint-Marc chapel be resumed. However, this seemed too remote, but a donation made it possible to build a new chapel on the site of the demolished Saint-Martin church. It was consecrated in the same year and was also named Saint-Marc.
On June 26, 1944, around 3000 German soldiers surrounded the main town of Dun-les-Places, which had 120 inhabitants. In search of resistance fighters , they arrested and interrogated numerous civilians over the next two days, ransacked their houses and set them on fire. 19 men were found shot dead in the Sainte-Amélie church on June 28, a total of 27 victims. Dun-les-Places is the place in Burgundy hardest hit by a massacre during World War II .
Population development
| year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1936 | 1946 | 1990 | 2013 |
| Residents | 1000 | 1920 | 1553 | 827 | 806 | 471 | 348 |
traffic
Dun-les-Places is on the D6 departmental road which, in its extensions, connects Saulieu in the east with Clamecy in the north-west.
Attractions
- Sainte-Amélie church
- Monument des fusillés
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Nièvre. Volume 1, Flohic Editions, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-054-X , pp. 511-513.
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- Vieux-Dun (Dun-les-Places, Dunum) near L'arbre celtique
- Le massacre de Dun-les-Places at museeresistancemorvan.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vieux-Dun (Dun-les-Places, Dunum) at L'arbre celtique, accessed on August 24, 2016
- ↑ Dun-les-Places: “C'était le massacre autour de l'église” at lejdc.fr, accessed on August 25, 2016
- ↑ Le massacre de Dun-les-Places at useeresistancemorvan.fr, accessed on August 25, 2016