La Horgne

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:La Horgne]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|La Horgne}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Commune in Grand Est, France

La Horgne
Commune
The church in La Horgne
Location of La Horgne
(2020–2026)		Nadine Templier^[1]
Area ¹	5.27 km² (2.03 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	156
• Density	30/km² (77/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	08228 /08430
Elevation	210 m (690 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

La Horgne (French pronunciation: [la ɔʁɲ]) is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.

History

During the German Invasion of France there was a battle fought at La Horgne on 15 May 1940. The German 1st Rifle Regiment were advancing as part of Kampfgruppe Krüger when they came up against the French 3rd Spahis Brigade who had fortified the village. The local geography prohibited the use of tanks and artillery to support the infantry attack which failed to break through. The regimental commander, Oberstleutnant Hermann Balck, came forward to lead his men and encourage them. The village fell to the Germans by the afternoon but delayed their advance and inflicted more casualties on the regiment than any other day of the campaign.^[3]

Of his opponents, Balch recorded -^[3]

I fought against all foes in both wars and I was always in the thick of it. Rarely did anyone fight as outstandingly as the 3rd Spahis Brigade. Its commander, Colonel Maré, was captured having been wounded... Out of the brigade's twenty-seven officers, twelve were killed in action, seven were wounded, along with 610 Spahi dead or wounded. The brigade had ceased to exist. It had sacrificed itself for France. I gave orders that prisoners we took be given especially good treatment.
— Hermann Balck, Ordnung im Chaos / Erinnerungen 1893 - 1948

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	39	—
1968	53	+35.9%
1975	53	+0.0%
1982	81	+52.8%
1990	107	+32.1%
1999	106	−0.9%
2008	185	+74.5%

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b Clark, Lloyd, 1967- (2016). Blitzkrieg : myth, reality and Hitler's lightning war - France, 1940. London. ISBN 978-0-85789-732-9. OCLC 959236698.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)