Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus

Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus
region	Grand Est
Department	Marne
Arrondissement	Châlons-en-Champagne
Canton	Argonne Suippe et Vesle
Community association	Region de Suippes
Coordinates	49 ° 11 ′ N , 4 ° 33 ′ E Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ N , 4 ° 33 ′ E
height	128-202 m
surface	53.12 km 2
Residents	238 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	4 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	51600
INSEE code	51553

French part of the Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus military cemetery (Champagne)

German part of the Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus military cemetery (Champagne); The German painter August Macke is anonymously buried in a mass grave.

Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus is a French commune with 238 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Marne department in the Grand Est region . It belongs to the canton of Argonne Suippe et Vesle (until 2015: canton of Suippes ).

history

During the First World War , the two villages of Souain and Perthes-lès-Hurlus were affected in several ways: on the one hand, the region was the scene of the fighting for Souain, of which numerous monuments testify, and on the other hand, the French army carried out the so-called Souain experiment under the leadership of General Philippe Pétain through. Here, prototypes of tracked vehicles by the US inventor Benjamin Holt were tested for their field suitability, which ultimately led to the commissioning of the Schneider CA1 , the first French armored fighting vehicle . The village of Souain also included the Wacques Vorwerk (La Ferme aux Wacques), which was completely destroyed in 1916, on the grounds of which the La Ferme des Wacques necropolis was built after the end of the war . After the war, both villages were largely devastated and merged to form the municipality of Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008	2014
Residents	195	184	138	168	203	193	205	227
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Personalities

François Flameng (1856–1923), painter and professor at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris

Memorial sites

In the area of Souain Perthes-lès-Hurlus there are several testimonies of the First World War. The ossuary of Navarino, the ossuary of the Foreign Legion Farnsworth , the cemetery of the 28th Brigade, the French and German Cemetery la Crouée , the cemetery de l'Opéra and several casemates are evidence of the severity of the four-year-long struggle. On the German war cemetery of Souain there is a collective grave for 11,320 soldiers u. a. buried the painter August Macke .

Web links

Commons : Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Ex Collection "RF" (Detlef Dähn), in the Weltbildarchiv Berlin
^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. (Ed.): “Don't let my pictures die.” Artist portraits. Kassel 2010, p. 9.
^ The Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus military cemeteries , accessed on October 12, 2017.

[1] Ex Collection "RF" (Detlef Dähn), in the Weltbildarchiv Berlin

[2] Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. (Ed.): “Don't let my pictures die.” Artist portraits. Kassel 2010, p. 9.

[3] The Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus military cemeteries , accessed on October 12, 2017.