Flowering ashes

Ornes is a common French, located in the department of the Meuse and the area Lorraine.

Although it still comprises some houses, the village can be regarded as one of the villages destroyed completely during the First World War like the localities close to Bezonvaux, Douaumont and Vaux.

Geography

Flowering ashes is located on the departmental way 24, with the foot of the coasts which border in the east the course of the Meuse, to a dozen kilometers as the crow flies in the North-East of Verdun. The Flowering ash, a brook which, become river, is thrown in the the Moselle close to Hagondange, takes its source on the territory of the commune.

The village is now located in edge of the Forest of Verdun which recovers the coasts and camouflage the thousands of shell holes still perfectly visible today.

History

The village existed already in 1046 and depended on the Saint-Maur abbey of Verdun. Freed in 1251, it became the chief town of an important baronnie, a prévôté baillage and one. In 1653, the troops Lorraine, catholic, invested the castle of Flowering ashes whose lords had followed the movement of the Reform.

Before its destruction, Ornes was an important village since its population exceeded more than 1300 inhabitants about the middle of the 19th century. Several mills and workshops of weaving formed part of it. The day before the war more than 700 inhabitants agriculture and craft industry lived. The village played the part of borough with respect to the surrounding localities. Over the last years of the life of Flowering ashes, one will poura to consult the very documented work of the Canon Charles Laurent, old Directing of the great seminar of Verdun: " Flowering ashes, life and the death of a village meusien" , published in the Memories of the Company of the Letters, Sciences and Arts of Bar the Duke (Volume 49)

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List of the Mayors of Flowering ashes before his destruction :

1799-1810: Michel Dormois

1811-1812: Nicolas Charton

1813-1819: Nicolas Manget

1819-1831: Jean-Nicolas Lambert

1831-1833: François Ferée

1833-1834: François Lecourtier

1834-1835: Jean-Baptiste Jacques

1835-1846: Christophe Molinet

1846-1848: Antoine Deville

1848-1851: Antoine Aubry

1851-1854: François Lecourtier-Jacques

1854-1871: Christophe Molinet-Henry

1871-1876: Auguste Lecourtier-Jamin

1876-1888: Louis-Christophe Schemouder

1888-1892: Antoine Aubry

1892-1897: Adolphe Deville

1897-1900: Jean-François Simonet

1900-1907: Edouard-Louis Ferée

1907-1912: Antoine-Emile Ferée

1912-1924: Edmond Laurent

source: Work of Charles Laurent

Administration

Demography

  • 1803 : 1035 inhabitants
  • 1851: 1316 inhabitants
  • 1901: 861 inhabitants
  • 1913: 718 inhabitants

Places and monuments

The old church, maintaining in ruin, was dedicated to Saint-Michel and went back to 1828. The vault located at the entry of the village was built in 1932.

See too

External bonds

  • Site on the villages destroyed
  • Flowering ashes on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Flowering ashes on the site of INSEE
  • Flowering ashes on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Flowering ashes on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Flowering ashes on Mapquest

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