Vaux-devant-Damloup
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| local community | Douaumont-Vaux | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meuse | |
| Arrondissement | Verdun | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 13 ' N , 5 ° 28' E | |
| Post Code | 55400 | |
| Former INSEE code | 55537 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 Aerial view of the bombarded village of Vaux, 1918 |
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Vaux-devant-Damloup is a village and a commune déléguée in the French commune of Douaumont-Vaux with 74 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ).
geography
Vaux-devant-Damloup is about ten kilometers northeast of Verdun .
history
During the First World War , Vaux was completely destroyed in the Battle of Verdun in 1916 due to its location in the immediate vicinity of the forts Vaux and Douaumont . Vaux is one of the nine destroyed villages ( Beaumont , Bezonvaux , Cumières-le-Mort-Homme , Douaumont , Fleury , Haumont , Louvemont , Ornes and Vaux-devant-Damloup) that were not rebuilt in the same place. The returned residents rebuilt the place a few meters south, again with a Saint-Loup church, which dates back to 1928.
The municipality of Vaux-devant-Damloup merged with Douaumont on January 1st, 2019 to form the Commune nouvelle Douaumont-Vaux. Since then it has had the status of a Commune déléguée.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2016 |
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| Residents | 18th | 8th | 12 | 48 | 60 | 65 | 71 | 74 |
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 215-219.
