Wassy | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Wassy.svg |
Arrondissement: | Saint-Dizier |
Canton: | Wassy |
Insee: | 52550 |
Postal Code: | 52130 |
Mayor: | Jean-Alain Charpentier[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CA Saint-Dizier Der et Blaise |
Coordinates: | 48.4994°N 4.9486°W |
Elevation M: | 172 |
Elevation Min M: | 154 |
Elevation Max M: | 224 |
Area Km2: | 33.82 |
Wassy (in French pronounced as /vasi/) is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France. Its population, as of 2019, is 2,819. Wassy has been twinned with the German town of Eppingen in north-west Baden-Württemberg since 1967.[2]
On 1 March 1562, a faction of armed soldiers under Francis, Duke of Guise attacked and killed worshippers at a Huguenot service, called the Massacre of Wassy, which marked the start of the First War of Religion in France.[3]
The river Blaise flows through the commune.