Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the Meuse

Château de style néo-Renaissance
55210 Vigneulles-lés-Hattonchâtel

Hattonchâtel Castle, rebuilt in a neo-Renaissance style between 1923 and 1928, dominates Vigneulles-les-Hattonchâtel in Meuse. This architectural pastiche incorporates medieval vestiges and symbolizes the 20th century Lorrain history.

Eglise fortifiée
55100 Dugny-sur-Meuse

The church of the Nativity-de-la-Sainte-Vierge of Dugny-sur-Meuse, Romano-Rhenan building of the 12th century, stands in the Meuse in the Great East. Ranked a historic monument in 1904, it bears witness to a medieval architecture preserved despite the wars.

Synagogue
55100 Verdun

The synagogue of Verdun, a 19th-century Hispano Mauresque building, stands in the Meuse. Unique in Lorraine, it incorporates a rabbi house and classified liturgical objects, witnesses to a history that has been turbulent since the 13th century.

Fort
55100 Douaumont-Vaux

Douaumont Fort, built between 1884 and 1913 near Verdun, is an emblematic military work of the Séré de Rivières system, marked by the Battle of 1916. Ranked a historic monument, it symbolizes French resistance during the First World War.

Château de style Classique
55200 Commercy

Commercy Castle, built in the 18th century in Commercy, Lorraine, is a sumptuous Baroque castle built on the remains of a medieval fortress, marked by the history of the Dukes of Lorraine and King Stanislas.

Monument commémoratif 14-18
55100 Fleury-devant-Douaumont

The Douaumont Ossuary, built at the beginning of the 20th century in Fleury-devant-Douaumont (Meuse), is a memorial to the remains of 130,000 unknown soldiers from the Battle of Verdun (1916). Symbol of Franco-German peace, it dominates a necropolis of 16,142 tombs.

Eglise gothique
55600 Avioth

The Basilica of Notre-Dame d'Avioth, a Gothic jewel of the 13th and 15th centuries, dominates the village of Avioth en Meuse. Ranked in 1840, it houses a black Virgin and a still alive medieval pilgrimage, nicknamed 'Cathedral of the Fields'.

Fontaine-lavoir
55130 Houdelaincourt

Houdelaincourt's wash fountain, built in the 19th century in the Meuse, is a semi-circular historical monument with drinking and colonnade, emblematic of local heritage.