Oradour-sur-Glane

Oradour-sur-Glane
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Haute-Vienne
Arrondissement	Rochechouart
Canton	Saint-Junien
Community association	Porte Océane du Limousin
Coordinates	45 ° 56 ' N , 1 ° 2' E Coordinates: 45 ° 56 ' N , 1 ° 2' E
height	227-312 m
surface	38.16 km 2
Residents	2,473 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	65 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	87520
INSEE code	87110
	; View of the "new village"

Oradour-sur-Glane ( Occitan Orador de Glana ) is a commune with 2,473 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Haute-Vienne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is located 200 kilometers northeast of Bordeaux and 22 kilometers northwest of Limoges . The place name is derived from the Latin oratorio “place of prayer”.

economy

Controlled designations of origin (AOC) for butter ( Beurre Charentes-Poitou , Beurre des Charentes and Beurre des deux Sevres ) and Protected Geographical Indications (IGP) for veal (Veau du Limousin) , lamb ( Agneau du Limousin and Agneau du Poitou ) apply in the municipality -Charentes ), pork (Porc du Limousin) , ham (Jambon de Bayonne) and wine (Haute-Vienne blanc , rosé or rouge) .

Oradour massacre

The place was best known for a war crime committed by the Waffen-SS during the Second World War on June 10, 1944 , in which the entire place was destroyed and almost all of its residents were murdered.

After the war, a new place was built next to the destroyed old one. A memorial site with a documentation center, the Center de la mémoire, is attached to the remains of the old village . The German President Joachim Gauck was the first German top politician to visit this memorial on September 4, 2013 and gave a speech. Hand in hand with the French President François Hollande, both presidents commemorated the atrocities of the Waffen SS. This gesture is also significant because the bereaved in Oradour refused any official contact with Germany for decades and even systematically ignored French state monuments for a long time or added their own "private" memorial. In a 1953 trial before a French court, those offenders who came from Alsace were sentenced to prison terms; however, they were released through an amnesty law .

graveyard

The cemetery of Oradour-sur-Glane, in French Cimetière d'Oradour-sur-Glane , is located between the ruined village, which was declared a historical monument after the Oradour massacre in 1946, and the place newly built from 1947 to 1953. With the exception of one building, the so-called Maison d'Oradour , it is the only infrastructure facility in the area that survived its extinction on June 10, 1944 by the Waffen-SS and continues to function today.

Due to the large number of visitors who visit the ruined village and the Center de la mémoire , which opened in 1999, each year, the cemetery of the small community is one of the most visited in France. It usually forms the end of the tour of the ruined village.

Population development

year	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011
Residents	1,671	1,759	1.941	1,998	2,025	2,188	2,325

traffic

Line 4 of the trams in the Haute-Vienne department ran through Oradour . In the ruins there are still relics of the route and the train station.

Web links

Commons : Oradour-sur-Glane - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Population data and information about the municipality

References and footnotes

↑ La ville d'Oradour-sur-Glane. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved July 7, 2012 (French).
↑ Gauck visits the village of SS disgrace. In: n-tv.de. Retrieved September 4, 2013 .
↑ The causes are related to the way the French state came to terms with the massacre in the years after the end of the war. A not inconsiderable number of the SS soldiers involved on the German side were Alsatians ( Alsace-Lorraine became German after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871; it was occupied by French troops at the end of the First World War and demanded back from France in the Versailles Treaty; from June 1940 until it was recaptured by troops of the Western Allies in 1944/45 ( fighting for Alsace and Lorraine (1944) ) it had been annexed by the German Reich or the Nazi regime).
↑ Rheinische Post from September 5, 2013, page A5: Gauck's gesture of reconciliation in Oradour (an on-site report by Sylvie Stephan).
↑ Voies métriques du Limousin.:. Gare d'Oradour sur Glane (CDHV). In: lemosin.net. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .

[1] La ville d'Oradour-sur-Glane. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved July 7, 2012 (French).

[2] Gauck visits the village of SS disgrace. In: n-tv.de. Retrieved September 4, 2013 .

[3] The causes are related to the way the French state came to terms with the massacre in the years after the end of the war. A not inconsiderable number of the SS soldiers involved on the German side were Alsatians ( Alsace-Lorraine became German after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871; it was occupied by French troops at the end of the First World War and demanded back from France in the Versailles Treaty; from June 1940 until it was recaptured by troops of the Western Allies in 1944/45 ( fighting for Alsace and Lorraine (1944) ) it had been annexed by the German Reich or the Nazi regime).

[4] Rheinische Post from September 5, 2013, page A5: Gauck's gesture of reconciliation in Oradour (an on-site report by Sylvie Stephan).

[lemosin-5] Voies métriques du Limousin.:. Gare d'Oradour sur Glane (CDHV). In: lemosin.net. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .