Ugny
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meurthe-et-Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Briey | |
| Canton | Mont-Saint-Martin | |
| Community association | Longwy | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 28 ' N , 5 ° 42' E | |
| height | 188-310 m | |
| surface | 9.14 km 2 | |
| Residents | 715 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 78 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 54870 | |
| INSEE code | 54537 | |
 Saint-Georges church |
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Ugny is a French commune with 715 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the arrondissement of Briey and the canton of Mont-Saint-Martin (until 2015: canton Longuyon ).
geography
The municipality is eight kilometers from the Franco-Belgian border and eight kilometers southwest of the town of Longwy .
history
There were settlements here as early as Gallo-Roman times.
During the First World War , from 1915 to 1918 the military hospital and the cemetery were in Pierrepont , the training ground in the Doncourt forest and the crew quarters of the Rohrschen Sturm- und Lehr-Battalion in Beuveille . The artillery of the Rohrschen battalion was in Ugny.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2014 |
| Residents | 353 | 368 | 420 | 465 | 418 | 444 | 720 | 738 |
Attractions
- Church Saint-Georges 1752
- Fortresses of the Maginot Line
Web links
Commons : Ugny - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eberhard Graf von Schwerin: Royal Prussian Storm Battalion No. 5 (Rohr) (From Germany's great times; Volume 116) recorded after the memory with the help of the diary of Lieutenant Colonel a. D. Willi Rohr / Count v. Schwerin; Sporn, Zeulenroda 1939