Oberwampach

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Oberwampach
Uewerwampech
Former commune of Luxembourg
Kirche Oberwampach 01.jpg
Oberwampach Church
Country Luxembourg
District Diekirch
Canton Clervaux
CreatedOriginal commune
Abolished1 January 1978
CurrentlyPart of Wincrange

Oberwampach (Luxembourgish : Uewerwampech) is a village in the commune of Wincrange, in northern Luxembourg. As of 2024, the village had a population of 263. [1]

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Oberwampach was a commune in the canton of Clervaux until 1 January 1978, when it was merged with the communes of Asselborn, Boevange, and Hachiville to form the new commune of Wincrange. The law creating Wincrange was passed on 31 October 1977. [2]

During the Battle of the Bulge, Oberwampach was the stage of a fierce battle between German and American troops in January 1945. [3]

Former commune

The former commune consisted of the villages:

People

Soldier and military engineer Johan Caspar von Cicignon was born in Oberwampach circa 1625.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Registre national des personnes physiques RNPP : Population par localité". data.public.lu. 2024-01-07.
  2. ↑ "Mémorial A, 1977, No. 70" (PDF) (in French). Service central de législation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-04-26. Retrieved 2006-08-11.
  3. ↑ Bergstrom, Christer (2014). The Ardennes, 1944-1945. pp. 300–303. ISBN   9781612002774.

50°01′N5°52′E / 50.017°N 5.867°E / 50.017; 5.867


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