Tavaux-et-Pontséricourt

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Tavaux-et-Pontséricourt
Tavaux-et-Pontséricourt (France)
Tavaux-et-Pontséricourt
region Hauts-de-France
Department Aisne
Arrondissement Laon
Canton Marle
Community association Pays de la Serre
Coordinates 49 ° 44 '  N , 3 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '  N , 3 ° 54'  E
height 92-185 m
surface 25.42 km 2
Residents 569 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 22 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 02250
INSEE code 02737

Tavaux-et-Pontséricourt is a French municipality with 569 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Aisne in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the Laon arrondissement , the Marle canton and the Pays de la Serre municipal association .

geography

Tavaux-et-Pontséricourt is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Agnicourt-et-Séchelles in the east, Montigny-le-Franc in the south, Saint-Pierremont in the south-west, Bosmont-sur-Serre in the north-west and the communes of Burelles in the canton of Vervins in the north-west as well as Braye-en-Thiérache and Vigneux-Hocquet in the northeast.

history

On the morning of August 30, 1944, a dozen resistance fighters attacked young SS soldiers to prevent them from blowing the bridge. Thereupon soldiers of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" from Marle and Montcornet cordoned off the village with Tiger tanks , machine guns and troop transports. In the retaliatory act that followed, 20 civilians were murdered and 86 houses destroyed.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2009 2015
Residents 797 766 752 666 622 590 594 579
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Notre-Dame church in Tavaux

  • Saint-Médard church in Pontséricourt

See also

Web links

Commons : Tavaux-et-Pontséricourt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Base Mérimée of the Ministry of Culture. Retrieved December 11, 2018 (French).