Le Verguier

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Le Verguier
Le Verguier (France)
Le Verguier
region Hauts-de-France
Department Aisne
Arrondissement Saint-Quentin
Canton Saint-Quentin-1
Community association Pays du Vermandois
Coordinates 49 ° 56 '  N , 3 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '  N , 3 ° 10'  E
height 74-135 m
surface 4.28 km 2
Residents 219 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 51 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 02490
INSEE code

City Hall (Mairie) and Le Verguier School

Le Verguier is a French municipality with 219 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Aisne department in the region of Hauts-de-France (before 2016 Picardy ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Saint-Quentin , the canton Saint-Quentin-1 (until 2015 Vermand ) and the municipality association Pays du Vermandois .

geography

Le Verguier is surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Pontru in the east and southeast, Maissemy in the south, Vendelles in the southwest, Jeancourt in the west and the municipality of Villeret in the canton of Bohain-en-Vermandois in the north.

history

Like many other villages in the area, Le Verguier was completely destroyed in the First World War.

On August 28, 1914, German troops reached the place they held until March 1917. The front was at that time about twenty kilometers west of Péronne . The Germans confiscated the houses in the village to accommodate their own troops. The residents were only entitled to a single room. Orders from the commandant's office obliged the population, under threat of sanctions, to provide wheat, eggs, milk, meat and vegetables for the soldiers at the front on a fixed date. In February 1917 the German troops withdrew.

On February 15, the residents of Le Verguier were evacuated in cattle wagons by train to Saint-Quentin and occupied territories in Belgium. Before the withdrawal of the German troops in March 1917, the houses were looted and the village systematically destroyed. The buildings were blown up and the trees sawed off at a height of one meter.

On March 31, 1917, Le Verguiers was captured by British troops after hard fighting.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2015
Residents 261 256 218 204 225 230 231 214
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Notre-Dame church
  • Notre-Dame church

Web links

Commons : Le Verguier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Le Petit Journal , issue of April 2, 1917 (French, digitized from Gallica )