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Sivry-sur-Meuse today...

 

 

Having visited Sivry-sur-Meuse several times now since 2012, it is one of these places where one can come to rest, enjoy nature, a beautiful scenery and also a lot of history.  Today the scars of the Great War are all healed in this village and are only remembered by the oldest inhabitants of the village.  Some impressions of Sivry as it looks today.

 

The Saint-Remi church with its two towers

The Town Hall of Sivry and former Reserve Field Hospital during the war

The Meuse Canal and small port of Sivry-sur-Meuse, today a very peaceful place with a picnic corner

The Meuse Canal with on the left the former aerodrome of KEK Sivry

A 270° panoramic view of the former aerodrome of KEK Sivry from where Boelcke took off in between March and June 1916

The house where Oswald Boelcke lived during this period is still there and can still be recognised very easily, we discovered it in September of 2012

The house that was used as the former Kommandantur, where Boelcke also went to eat every day, is still there as well, just on the opposite side of the road of his former house

A trackway along the Meuse Canal just next to the former aerodrome on the right

And in the distance the two towers of the Saint-Remi church of Sivry-sur-Meuse

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