Douaumont (French pronunciation: [dwomɔ̃]) is a former commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

[2] The village was a single street lying on an east-west axis and appears to have been connected to a local industry.

Today the Douaumont Ossuary, which contains the remains of more than 100,000 unknown soldiers of both French and German nationalities found on the battlefield, stands high above the landscape.

At the very beginning of the Battle of Verdun (February 1916) and due to French unpreparedness, the fort was easily captured by a small German raiding party.

Douaumont was later recaptured by the French Army in October 1916, after major casualties on both sides.