La Gleize
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ' N , 5 ° 51' E
La Gleize is a village in Belgium . The place belongs to the municipality of Stoumont in the province of Liège (Liège).
La Gleize is located on a ledge north of the Amel river . La Gleize is three kilometers east of Stoumont and seven kilometers north of Trois-Ponts on the N633. It is 46 km as the crow flies (60 km by road) north of Bastogne (a transport hub in the Ardennes) between the A 26 and A 27 motorways .
The following villages belong to La Gleize: Moulin-du-Ruy, Andrimont, Ruy, Exbomont, Heilrimont, Moustier, Neufmoulin, Roanne, Roanne-Coo, Borgoumont, Cour, Cheneux, La Venne, Monceau.
history
During the Ardennes offensive (December 16, 1944 to January 21, 1945) Wehrmacht troops advanced as far as La Gleize. There they were surrounded by US troops; this is considered a "beginning of the end" of the Ardennes offensive. Around the same time the Wehrmacht besieged Bastogne .
Near the church (Romanesque, 12th century) there is a monument to a Tiger II ("King Tiger "); there is a war museum. In the building there was briefly a field hospital for the wounded of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler .
Others
Every year in mid-June, militaria collectors meet in La Gleize.
Sons of the place
- Louis Remacle (1910–1997), linguist, novelist and writer
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de.
- ↑ www.december44.com (French, English).
- ↑ www.lagleize.org.
- ↑ a three-volume work by him has the title Syntaxe du parler wallon de La Gleize