Tintigny

Tintigny (in Lorraine and Walloon Tintnî ) is a common French-speaking of Belgium located in Walloon region in the Province of Luxembourg.

The commune of Tintigny, is located in Gaume, and includes/understands the villages of Tintigny, Rossignol, Bellefontaine, Saint-Vincent, Breuvanne, Lahage, Ansart, Poncelle and Han, on an total surface area of 8.224 hectares. Average altitude is of 338 Mr.

History

The origins of the commune of Tintigny are rather obscure. It is thanks to discoveries like that of the Roman Voie connecting Rheims to Trier and to many vestiges of Roman establishments that one can say that its origins go up at the time Roman. It is in 1097 that appears for the first time the name of Tintigny in the Charter of Foundation of the priory of Holy-Walburge of Chiny. It was however already quoted at the time of a pilgrimage with Saint-Dagobert into 852 with Stenay.

The history of Tintigny is, like that of many bordering villages of the Semois, closely related on the Comté of Chiny and to the Seigneurie of Villemont.

It is in 1823 that Tintigny acquires the title of commune which it will keep at the time of the independence of the Belgium, in 1830, like during the fusion of the communes in 1977. The village of Tintigny was burnt with the three quarters on August 22nd 1914; 183 houses of the village were destroyed. These facts are ascribable in particular with 38e IH and 51e IH of the German imperial army. Wrongfully shown to be franc-tireurs, 93 inhabitants of the locality were killed.
The same day, in Rossignol, take place one of the great disasters of the battle of the borders; the 3° division of French colonial infantry, a crack corps made up as a majority of volunteers having already seen fire, was surrounded and destroyed by the XI° and XII° Divisions of Infantry of the VI° German Silesian Corps.

In 1977, the communes of Tintigny, Saint-Vincent, Bellefontaine and Rossignol amalgamated to become the commune of Large Tintigny.

Etymology

Certain scholars think that Tintigny would find its origin in the Latin name Tintinus which is widespread both in Italy and as a Gaulle, others advance that would quite simply refer to tinklings of the workshops of forging mills which one often found along the Semois.

Various orthographies appeared with the passing of years:

1097 : Tintiniacum

1173: Tintigni

1230: Tintignei

1327: Tintegney

and today Tintigny

Population

In January 2004, the population of the commune is the following one:

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