Military heritage
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Castle of Bleid
6760 BleidIt was built very likely during the second half of the 16th century by Henri de Sterpigny, governor of the region. It was originally defended by wide ditches full of water. In 1818, the castle suffere...
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Castle of Laclaireau
rue de Laclaireau 1 6760 EtheThis place is, with Sainte-Ode and Pont d’Oye, the only metallurgy industry which a seigneury has been named after. Established in the beginning of the 15th century, the factory of Laclaireau was esse...
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Castle of Latour
6761 Latourmain description The ruins of the castle of Latour are located on a hill nearby the Musée de la guerre en Gaume museum. This castle could have been built more than one thousand years ago, because it ...
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Memorial to the shot civilians of Ethe and Latour (1914)
6760 Ethesubtitel main description This memorial to the civilians of Ethe and Latour is of antique style. It was erected in a meadow near the village at the very place where the vitims were shot. On August 22...
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Monument of the "maquis du Banel"
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The lake and the castle of "Les Epioux"
6821 LacuisineThe steel makers built the castle of the Epioux in 1650. It was restored in 1730. Louis Zoude ordered the construction of the tower in 1878. In its glory days, the castle hosted an important visitor, ...
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The Laplace memorial (1914)
6760 Bleidsubtitel This memorial is located in the heart of the village and it was inaugurated in 1970. It was built in memory of the 600 French soldiers who died during the First World War main description Th...
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The Richter stele
6730 BellefontaineThis memorial is dedicated to the French armored cavalrymen from the 5th regiment who died in Bellefontaine on the day when war was declared, on May 10 1940. Lieutnant Richter and seven of his men nat...
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War memorial
6761 LatourAfter the First world war, and in order to keep the memory of the 71 inhabitants of the village who were shot in Ethe on August 24 1914, Auguste Groslambert, a teacher from the entity and veteran, did...
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Castle de Laittres
rue Vichaurue 6762 Saint-MardThe Castle of Laittres or castle Baudoux was the headquarters of the seigneury of saint-Mard successively belonging to the Boucquemonts, Lutz (name of the village which was situated to the east of Ger...
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Castle Foncin
rue Foncin 6760 Virtonmain description The Castle Foncin was built in 1869 if we refer to the vintage that adorns the key of the front door for the solicitor Octave Foncin. The architect who has designed the plans was pro...
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Castle of Gerlache
6760 Gomerymain description The oldest part of the castle was built during the second half of the 12th century. Gilles of Gomery lived there in the end of the 14th century. It was totally rebuilt between 1601 a...
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Commemorative plate of the First World War
En face de l'entrée de l'église 6750 SigneulxCommemorative plate in memory of the victims of the Frist World War and of the two Sindic brothers
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Commemorative plate to those who have been shot (1947)
rue Camille Joset 6730 RossignolThis commemorative plate has been put there in 1947. It is dedicated to the 122 inhabitants of Rossignol, Breuvanne, Saint-Vincent and Tellancourt who died shot in Arlon by the German army on August 2...
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Kasteel van Sivry
6740 Sivrymain description short description
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Memorial to the colonial French soldiers, called the Marsouins (1927)
rue de Neufchâteau 6730 RossignolThis memorial has been erected in honour of the colonial French soldiers who fighted during the Battle of Rossignol on August 22 1914. The colonial soldiers; called the marsouins, were by then conside...
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Pietà of the "camp de la misère" (1931)
rue de Neufchâteau 6730 Rossignolmain description This pietà is dedicated to the inhabitants of Rossignol who were shot in Arlon and to the French soldier who were deported in Germany, in 1914. additional description The French sold...
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stele dedicated to Ernest Psichari
rue Camille Joset 6730 Rossignolmain description Ernest Psichari was a young French writer, killed during the Battle of the borders that opposed the French army and the German one in 1914. This monument has been erected quite close...
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Stele dedicated to Jules Cozier (1921)
rue de Neufchâteau 6730 RossignolThis stele is dedicated to Jules Cozier, one of the victims of the atrocities the German army committed in Rossignol. As a matter of fact, on the 23rd of August 1914, after their victory during the ba...
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Stele dedicated to the Collard brothers
6730 Tintignymain description In 1916, Louis and Anthony Collard left Tintigny with the aim to join the Yser front in order to help the Allies airmen with their knowledges about the topography of the Belgian Prov...
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The calvary of memory
6761 LatourIt was placed there in 1964 by the inhabitants of Latour in memory of the 71 inhabitants of the village who were shot by the German soldiers. It is made of sandstone on the road of Latour towards Ethe
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The French memorial (1914)
6760 GomeryThis memorial was erected in hommage to the French soldiers, victims of the German army's barbarity of the 23rd and 24th of August 1914 is located left of the gate of the cemetery of Gomery.
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War memorial
Grand'rue - parvis de l'église 6730 TintignyThis memorial is dedicated to the inhabitants of Tintigny who suffered duing the First World War. The names of 46 civilians who were shot by the Gezrman soldiers in August 1914 are written on it. So a...
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War memorial (1920)
rue de la Veillée 6730 PoncelleOn August 22 1914, Poncelle suffered very much of the arrival of the German troops. Fire got set to the village that was destroyed 75%, and a great number of inhabitants were shot. Poncelle is the fir...
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War memorial (1921)
rue du Monument 6730 AnsartThis memorial is dedicated to the 45 civilians who were shot there (so-called place "Les Loynes), in August 1914
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War memorial 1914-1918
place Albert Goffinet 6750 MussonRests of the gate of the cemetery that was fitted out as a war memorial, for the soldiers, the civilians and those who were deported from Musson in 1914
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War memorial of the two world wars in the cemetery
rue Camille Joset 6730 Rossignolmain description This memorial was erected in 1952 in honour of the soldiers from Rossignol who died during the two wars and of the Chasseurs Ardennais. The First World War turned Rossignol into a ma...