Laffaux

Laffaux
region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Aisne
Arrondissement	Soissons
Canton	Fère-en-Tardenois
Community association	Communauté de communes du Val de l'Aisne
Coordinates	49 ° 27 ' N , 3 ° 26' E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ' N , 3 ° 26' E
height	79-172 m
surface	6.76 km 2
Residents	149 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	22 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	02880
INSEE code	02400
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Laffaux is a commune with 149 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Aisne in the region of Hauts-de-France (former Region: Picardie ). The municipality belongs to the Arrondissement of Soissons and is part of the canton of Fère-en-Tardenois and the communal association Communauté de communes du Val de l'Aisne . The municipality was awarded the Croix de guerre award from 1914 to 1918.

geography

The municipality with the districts Le Moulin de Laffaux and La Ferme Notre-Dame, 14 km northeast of Soissons , is located with its center west of Route nationale 2 and is touched in the west by the La Plaine – Hirson railway line . Neighboring communities are Vauxaillon in the north, Allemant in the northeast, Nanteuil-la-Fosse in the east, Margival in the south and Neuville-sur-Margival in the west.

During the First World War , fighting took place in Laffaux in 1917 at the Chemin des Dames as part of the Battle of the Aisne . During the Second World War , the Fuehrer's headquarters in Wolfsschlucht 2 , which was also used for military purposes after the war, was built in the forest in part on the municipal area. For this purpose, the residents were resettled in 1944.

Notre-Dame church
Moulin de Laffaux memorial (processed by Louis Aragon in literary terms) to the two world wars, on the Route nationale, a. a. with the Monument des crapouillots (monument to the ditch mortars) and numerous other monuments, a place of remembrance (lieu de mémoire)

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