Things to see and do Bavigne

During the Von Rundstedt offensive (the first offensive of the Battle of the Bulge), the inhabitants of Bavigne promised to erect a chapel to Mary. And so, since 1953, this rounded summit, known locally as Harelerberg, has been topped by three large wooden crosses and this chapel. Until recently, a stone statue of the Virgin Mary stood on a stone pedestal, but for safety reasons it was moved to the parish church.

This memorial was erected on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Luxembourg by the Allied armies. It contains the plaques of the American units that took part in the battle. Nearby, a 3 km-long memorial trail leads through the woods that were the object of intense fighting. The holes of the riflemen correspond to the locations of the bodies of the 160 German and American soldiers who were discovered there after the fighting that followed on December 30, 1944.

Surrounded by a pretty cemetery with its schist crosses, the Bavigne parish church has a sanctuary built in 1744 and a bell tower, the lower part of which may be older. The place is best known for its high altar designed and built by the sculptor Nicolas Jacques de Nobressart (1713-1793), a craftsman from Wiltz, and renovated in 1956 by Josef van Heckern from Essen. The church has been classified as a national monument since 1961.