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Haybes

3.0Haybes, France

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Maximum length: 30 m

Small river halt on the right bank of the Meuse in the Ardennes, 10 berths, opposite the Roc de Fépin rock face.

Guide

Approach and anchoring

On the canalised Meuse at PK 97, between écluse 49 de Fépin downstream and écluse 50 de Haybes upstream. Headroom of 3,70 metres under the nearest bridge at Fumay. Current weak except during Ardennes floods, when VNF may close the reach.

Practical

Ten places at a wooden pontoon, water and shore power, depth around 1,8 metres. Bakery, butcher, small grocer and two restaurants on the square facing the river at less than 150 m. Trains to Charleville-Mézières and Givet from Haybes station at 400 m.

Ashore

Panorama de la Platale on the slate cliffs above the village, marked path of 2 km from the pontoon, viewpoint at 280 m altitude over the Meuse loop. Trans-Ardennes greenway runs along the opposite bank, reached by the road bridge to Fumay at 1,5 km. Forest of the Manise classified Natura 2000 spreads over the plateau behind the village.

History

Haybes is called la Jolie since the late XIXth century when the Meuse railway opened it to Belgian tourism. The village was burned on 24 August 1914 by German troops as part of the reprisal destructions of the Ardennes invasion, 61 civilians killed, and almost entirely rebuilt in the 1920s.

Story

A monument on the riverbank lists the names of the 61 civilians shot in August 1914, one of the worst single-village massacres of the opening weeks of the First World War in France.