Landres () is a commune in the

Meurthe-et-Moselle Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a '' département'' in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. Its prefecture and largest city is Nancy and it borders the departments of Meuse to the west, Vosges to the south, ...

department in north-eastern

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. This region of Europe has been occupied by humans since prehistoric times. Archaeological finds in the local area date back to the

Mesolithic The Mesolithic (Ancient Greek language, Greek: μέσος, ''mesos'' 'middle' + λίθος, ''lithos'' 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic i ...

era. The present settlement and its name date back to at least the

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period. Historically, there was a chateau, and a noble family, associated with Landres. While it was not in the part of the Lorraine annexed by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, from 1871 to 1918 the location of the village was fairly close to the border with the

German Empire The German Empire (),; ; World Book, Inc. ''The World Book dictionary, Volume 1''. World Book, Inc., 2003. p. 572. States that Deutsches Reich translates as "German Realm" and was a former official name of Germany. also referred to as Imperia ...

. The community was occupied by Germany during the First World War, and was within the German (Northern) zone of military occupation during the Second World War. According to French census data, Landres' population peaked in the decade of the 1900s, and began a decline in the early 1910s, which was sharply accelerated by the events of World War I; during which the village was damaged by shelling & abandoned by many or most of its French inhabitants. After that war, population numbers recovered somewhat; but even during the post World War II population boom, the numbers never returned to their levels from first decade of the Twentieth Century. Landres - 1916.pencil-sketch art postcard.signed P. Busse.1916.Wittig collection.item 58.obverse.scan.01(cropped).jpg, A ruined street in Landres, 1916; postcard drawing by a German soldier. As can be seen in the lede photograph, the church appears to be the only surviving structure from this scene. Eglise_Landres_54.jpg, Another view of the village church Landres_-_Mine_-_vers_1930.jpg, La Mine de Micheville in Landres, circa 1930 Map_commune_FR_insee_code_54295.png, Map of the commune

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