Leintrey

Leintrey is a common French, located in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and the area Lorraine.

Geography

The commune is located at the end of a beautiful small valley which extends from north in the south bordered by the villages of Reillon, Blemerey, veho and Domjevin and which comes to lead to right angle with the large valley of Vezouze.

History

The population was of five hundred and twenty-four inhabitants before the First World War and of six hundred thirty-nine in 1836. Leintrey was Chef-lieu of canton in 1790.

Located on the road of the invasions, much of misfortunes fell down on the village and its inhabitants.

The village was tiny room of ashes by the troops of Official receptions in 1636. There were nothing any more but five houses. In 1688, others, rebuilt, were again burnt.

- At the XIXe century, the village knew misfortunes of the war of 1870-1871.

From 1914 to 1918, the village was occupied by the Germans. The houses, its church being destroyed, cannonaded with length of day, the life was intolerable and the inhabitants were evacuated to return only after the Armistice (there remained only two houses). With thousand five hundred meters of the village the line of distinct French units was, positions indélogeables which they kept all the war, in spite of the eagerness of the adversary. The latter used the technique of the underground galleries to deposit under the trenches of the tons of explosives and to make them jump to force the passage. Eighty-three soldiers of the 162e Régiment of infantry perished in the explosion of mines on July 10th, 1916.

The village was rebuilt in 1925. The common house, its school and its presbytery are the work of the architect Joseph Hornecker, author of the large theater of Nancy.

The Second world war involved a new occupation of the sector after the defeat of June 1940. The first allied ones made an incursion in September 1944 and the village however was released only in November of the same year. The church was again partially destroyed in 1944 like good number of houses.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The Funnels of Leintrey are, in 1915, on the frontline. Sap Germans: a hundred French soldiers found death there. It is precisely above the Funnels of Leintrey that two officers of flotilla MF 33 were killed in aerial combat in 1917: lieutenants Nissim de Camondo and Lucien Desessarts, died for the France the September 5th 1917.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Meurthe-et-Moselle

External bonds

Leintrey on the site of the national geographical Institute
Leintrey on the site of INSEE
Leintrey on the site of Quid
Localization of Leintrey on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Leintrey on Mapquest

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