See also: Neuville

Neuville-Day is a common French, located in the department of the the Ardennes and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

Geography

The village is located on a hillock overhanging a valley occupied by the channel of the Ardennes.

Along the channel, with the locality Coquée a specific economic activity had developed, of the digging of the channel about 1850, with the decline of shipping, about 1960.

The common one counts a hamlet of importance: Day.

The economic resources are especially agricultural.

History

The village (Neuville) was destroyed by French artillery at the time of an offensive at the beginning of November 1918.

It was rebuilt, on the hillock (Neuville) and in the valley (Coquée) with beginning of the year 20.

Given up by its inhabitants at the time of the German offensive of May 1940 it was burned, about October 1940, by the services of German propaganda for the needs for a film. Rebuilt since 1945.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The village was rebuilt as from 1920, then as from 1945, with a great unit of style. It is necessary to notice the church built about 1960.

The hamlet, Day, account a medieval castle, a priory and a church of the beginning of the 20th century.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

• Common of the Ardennes

External bonds

• the church of Neuville-Day, the church of Day; Priory of Day & the castle of Day.
• Neuville-Day on the site of the national geographical Institute
• Neuville-Day on the site of INSEE
• Neuville-Day on the site of Quid
• Localization of Neuville-Day on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Plane on Neuville-Day on Mapquest

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