Saint-Remy-la-Calonne
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meuse | |
| Arrondissement | Verdun | |
| Canton | Etain | |
| Community association | Territoire de Fresnes-en-Woëvre | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 3 ' N , 5 ° 36' E | |
| height | 273-384 m | |
| surface | 8.04 km 2 | |
| Residents | 103 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 13 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 55160 | |
| INSEE code | 55465 | |
Saint-Remy-la-Calonne is a French commune with 103 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the canton of Étain (until 2015: canton of Fresnes-en-Woëvre ) in the arrondissement of Verdun .
geography
The municipality is located about 20 kilometers southeast of Verdun on the western edge of the Woëvre landscape in the Lorraine Regional Nature Park . The municipality is traversed by the Longeau river, which drains over the Yron and the Orne into the Moselle and over the Rhine into the North Sea. Neighboring municipalities of Saint-Remy-la-Calonne are Combres-sous-les-Côtes in the northeast, Herbeuville in the east, Dommartin-la-Montagne in the south, Vaux-lès-Palameix in the southwest, Mouilly in the west and Les Éparges in the northwest.
history
Saint-Remy-la-Calonne was part of the Duchy of Bar , which was annexed by France with the Duchy of Lorraine in the 17th century. In 1632 many residents fell victim to a plague epidemic . During the First World War , the site was twice the scene of battles between French and German troops in 1914 and was then occupied by the Germans.
The Saint-Remy church, built in 1732, was destroyed in the First World War, as was the village, but rebuilt in 1926. The lavoir of the village was restored in 1920 according to the old templates.
In 1940, Saint-Remi-la-Calonne was again occupied by German troops and the place of a command post. In September 1944, US troops liberated the village.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
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| Residents | 66 | 50 | 43 | 44 | 47 | 63 | 69 |
War graves
- National war cemetery with 203 French victims of the First World War, of whom only 86 could be identified. There is the grave of the writer Alain-Fournier (1886-1914), whose remains were identified in 1991 and reburied in the French military cemetery.
- German military cemetery in the forest of the village with twelve graves.
- Memorial near the village church for Alain-Fournier, who fell on September 22, 1914, and his 20 comrades.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 462-463.
