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Country
  
France

Department
  
Ardennes

Intercommunality
  
Pays rethélois

Area
  
19.01 km²

Population
  
139 (1999)

Region
  
Grand Est

Canton
  
Château-Porcien

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Local time
  
Thursday 3:12 AM

Arrondissement
  
Rethel

Banogne-Recouvrance

Weather
  
7°C, Wind W at 26 km/h, 77% Humidity

Banogne-Recouvrance is a French commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France.

Contents

Map of Banogne-Recouvrance, France

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Banognais or Banognaises.

Geography

Banogne-Recouvrance is located some 20 km north-west of Rethel and 33 km east of Laon. Access to the commune is by the D30 road from Saint-Quentin-le-Petit in the north-west which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues south-east to Condé-lès-Herpy. The D35 goes from the village to Le Thour in the south-west. The D135 goes north from the village to join the D2 north of the commune. Apart from the village at the centre of the commune there is the hamlet of Recouvrance to the east. The commune is entirely farmland.

The writer Ernst Jünger remembered his passing through the village as a small village off the main roads, nestled in graceful chalk hills.

History

The village is mentioned in cartularies of the 13th century.

In 1570 Banogne is described in the census as attached to the Parish of Thour whose barons and the Hotel Dieu de Reims share the land. A strong ditch surrounded Recouvrance providing a refuge for the inhabitants. A place called Ruisselois was the property of the Abbey of Signy then of the Jesuit college in Reims. A white chalk quarry is operated nearby.

In 1822 these villages were united into one commune with Banogne at the centre (with Le Ruisselois as a hamlet). Recouvrance also became a hamlet.

In 1918 the village was the site of fierce fighting during the Battle of St. Quentin Canal in the last weeks of the war. On 25 October the French army captured the heights of the commune and so seized the last stretch between Saint-Quentin and the Aisne valley of the system of German fortifications from La Fère to Rethel called the Hunding Stellung. Of the 125 houses in the town only 10 remained standing at the end of the fighting. The village and the church were rebuilt in the following decade.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 160 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Sites and monuments

  • A Church rebuilt after the First World War.
  • Notable people linked to the commune

  • Ernst Jünger, German writer, he stayed in the hamlet of Recouvrance when he was a young soldier. This hamlet was slightly behind the front (on the German side) in early 1915 and served as a training area. Ernst Jünger devoted several pages to his stay, which preceded his engagement at the front, in his journal Storm of Steel.
  • References

    Banogne-Recouvrance Wikipedia