Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Michel
Ornes, Meuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Les ruines de l'église (cad. AC 23) : inscription par arrêté du 2 mai 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/05/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- A Horgne
- Commune
- Ornes
- Département
- Meuse
- Region
- Grand Est
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.25265, 5.46724
- Mérimée reference
- PA55000004
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1760 map "110 Verdun." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Unique vestige d'un des neuf villages "Mort pour la France" sur le front de Verdun, à l'issue des combats de la première guerre mondiale. L'église avait été reconstruite en 1828 dans le style néo-classique.
English translation
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History
Unique vestige of one of the nine villages "Died for France" on the Verdun front, following the fighting of the First World War. The church had been rebuilt in 1828 in the neo-classical style.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Saint-Michel et la Fontaine du Souvenirchapelleunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Gilleschapelle1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Mauricechapelle3 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Hilairechapelle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.