Banogne-Recouvrance

For other uses, see Recouvrance (disambiguation).

Banogne-Recouvrance
Commune
The Village Centre
Coat of arms
Location of Banogne-Recouvrance
Banogne-Recouvrance Banogne-Recouvrance
Coordinates: 49°34′23″N 4°07′42″E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Ardennes
Arrondissement	Rethel
Canton	Château-Porcien
Intercommunality	Pays rethélois
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Jean-Luc Guillaume
Area 1	19.01 km2 (7.34 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	162
• Density	8.5/km2 (22/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	08046 /08220
Elevation	80–162 m (262–531 ft) (avg. 136 m or 446 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Banogne-Recouvrance is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Banognais or Banognaises.

Geography

The Hamlet of Recouvrance

Banogne-Recouvrance is located some 20 km north-west of Rethel and 33 km east of Laon. Access to the commune is by the D30 road from Saint-Quentin-le-Petit in the north-west which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues south-east to Condé-lès-Herpy. The D35 goes from the village to Le Thour in the south-west. The D135 goes north from the village to join the D2 north of the commune. Apart from the village at the centre of the commune there is the hamlet of Recouvrance to the east. The commune is entirely farmland.

The writer Ernst Jünger remembered his passing through the village as a small village off the main roads, nestled in graceful chalk hills.

History

The village is mentioned in cartularies of the 13th century.

In 1570 Banogne is described in the census as attached to the Parish of Thour whose barons and the Hotel Dieu de Reims share the land. A strong ditch surrounded Recouvrance providing a refuge for the inhabitants. A place called Ruisselois was the property of the Abbey of Signy then of the Jesuit college in Reims. A white chalk quarry is operated nearby.

In 1828 these villages were united into one commune with Banogne at the centre (with Le Ruisselois as a hamlet). Recouvrance also became a hamlet.

In 1918 the village was the site of fierce fighting during the Battle of St. Quentin Canal in the last weeks of the war. On 25 October the French army captured the heights of the commune and so seized the last stretch between Saint-Quentin and the Aisne valley of the system of German fortifications from La Fère to Rethel called the Hunding Stellung. Of the 125 houses in the town only 10 remained standing at the end of the fighting. The village and the church were rebuilt in the following decade.

Heraldry

Arms of Banogne-Recouvrance

Blazon: Party per pale Gules and Azure debruised by 3 blades of wheat of Or, in chief the same charged with 3 martlets of Sable.

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2008	Sébastien Loriette
2008	2014	Alain Deparpe
2014	2020	Jean-Luc Guillaume

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 157 inhabitants. The population data given in the table and graph below for 1821 and earlier refer to the former commune of Banogne.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 324 —     1800 368 +1.84% 1806 336 −1.50% 1821 368 +0.61% 1831 690 +6.49% 1836 681 −0.26% 1841 694 +0.38% 1846 715 +0.60% 1851 704 −0.31% 1866 650 −0.53% 1872 613 −0.97% 1876 562 −2.15% 1881 559 −0.11% 1886 563 +0.14% 1891 572 +0.32% 1896 528 −1.59% 1901 536 +0.30%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 502 −1.30% 1911 477 −1.02% 1921 273 −5.43% 1926 381 +6.89% 1931 338 −2.37% 1936 353 +0.87% 1946 260 −3.01% 1954 308 +2.14% 1962 265 −1.86% 1968 216 −3.35% 1975 194 −1.52% 1982 166 −2.20% 1990 128 −3.20% 1999 139 +0.92% 2007 154 +1.29% 2012 165 +1.39% 2017 157 −0.99%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

An Oratory at Recouvrance

Sites and monuments

The Church

• A Church rebuilt after the First World War.

Notable people linked to the commune

• Ernst Jünger, German writer, he stayed in the hamlet of Recouvrance when he was a young soldier. This hamlet was slightly behind the front (on the German side) in early 1915 and served as a training area. Ernst Jünger devoted several pages to his stay, which preceded his engagement at the front, in his journal Storm of Steel.

See also

• Communes of the Ardennes department

External links

• Banogne-Recouvrance on the old National Geographic Institute website (in French)
• Banogne-Recouvrance on Lion1906
• Banogne-Recouvrance on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Bannogne and Recouvrance on the 1750 Cassini Map