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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën
March 25, 2025
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Ornes was a real city, larger than the other villages destroyed, but eventually, after the Great War, is at the same point that they or essentially disappeared under the rocks.
In the middle of the 19th century it has 1367 inhabitants. This number drops to 750 inhabitants in 1914, mainly due to depopulation of the countryside, which provides labor to large industrial centers booming in the late 19th century. Nevertheless, this city has an industrial textile processing and very suitable for local agricultural production and of the plain of the neighboring Woëvre.
In the middle of the 19th century it has 1367 inhabitants. This number drops to 750 inhabitants in 1914, mainly due to depopulation of the countryside, which provides labor to large industrial centers booming in the late 19th century. Nevertheless, this city has an industrial textile processing and very suitable for local agricultural production and of the plain of the neighboring Woëvre.
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Elevation 300 m