Hotton

Hotton is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located within the province of Luxembourg. The municipality lies 12 kilometers from Marche-en-Famenne in the Ardennes and has more than five,400 inhabitants. The river Ourthe crosses Hotton. The first history of Hotton dates from Roman times, while Hotton turned into a oppidum. Multiple Roman excavations were found at Ti-Chateau, a stronged Roman encampment. The village of Hotton was first stated in medieval documents as Hottine in 1187. Hotton become part of the medieval county of La Roche until the 16th century, whilst it become taken over via the lords of Montaigu. In 1791, Hotton have become a free village.

In the afternoon of eleven May 1940, Hotton was captured and occupied with the aid of the fifth Panzer Division at some point of the Battle of Belgium. Allied forces attempted in vain to explode Hotton played an crucial function all through the Battle of the Bulge, as German troops reached here with the aid of their develop of the maximum western factor, being stopped by the American 84th Infantry Division Railsplitters.