Cumières-le-Mort-Homme
Cumières-le-Mort-Homme
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8 km northwest of Charny - 16 km northwest of Verdun.
The destroyed village, the only of the left bank of the Meuse one of nine villages destroyed in the war of 14-18, had 205 inhabitants in 1913.
It has very ancient origins since discovered a sepulchral wells dating from the Neolithic period in 1873.
In the Middle Ages, one of the lords of Cumières began to ransom all who passed on his land, including the residents of Verdun. They joined forces against him and destroyed his castle in 1439.
Nearly five centuries later, it will be the entire village will suffer the same fate, but for other reasons.
Indeed, after the outbreak by the German Army's massive offensive in February 1916 to seize the heights of Verdun by the right bank of the Meuse, the German General Staff decided to outflank the resistance from the west French ...
The Germans first seek to seize the heights of the Dead-Man, during a particularly bloody battle that lasted 10 days, from 6 to 16 March 1916. They achieve and extend their attack on March 20 to Hill 304, located to the west. The fighting was fierce in a deluge of fire and in appalling weather conditions.
Further east, Cumières held by the 5th Battalion, 254th Infantry Regiment was attacked from 16 to 23 May 1916. The town fell to the Germans 24 May 1916, despite the heroic defense of the French infantry.
It was not until August 20, 1917 in the ruins of the village of Cumières be reclaimed by the regiment of the Foreign Legion.
At the end of the war in 1918 Cumières is placed in "red zone" with all of the Mort Homme Hill then receives the unique status of "village destroyed" with eight other villages in Meuse also martyred .
Between the wars, veterans, very active to honor the memory of countless hairy dead, wounded or missing in the mud of this important field, helped build the impressive monument of the skeleton on the Mort Homme in 1922 and finally add the name of that bloody hill to the village destroyed Cumières, "Died for France", as these hairy 10,000 fell on this sector of the Mort Homme.
Finally, as in the other eight villages destroyed on the right bank of the Meuse, builds Cumières-le-Mort-Homme August 6, 1933 the Saint-Rémi with the stones of the old church to remember that this place was a village happy to live, at the foot of the hill.
The chapel of Saint-Rémi high with stones of the old church (paintings of Lucien Lantier).
The war memorial.
The monument of the skeleton (striking work of the sculptor Jacques Froment-Meurice, erected by the Association of veterans of the 63rd Infantry Division) at the top of the hill of the Dead Man.
The remains of the reach of the old mill.
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