Pay attention !We are open from july 1st.
For sanitary reasons, reception could be limited to the museum and the video projection
There will be no possibility of prior booking for individuals.
Groups could be accepted only on prior reservation via email. No guiding provided in 2020.
Last minute ! Credit cards are accepted with or without contact !
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For sanitary reasons, reception could be limited to the museum and the video projection
There will be no possibility of prior booking for individuals.
Groups could be accepted only on prior reservation via email. No guiding provided in 2020.
Last minute ! Credit cards are accepted with or without contact !
(Clic on title to close)
| It should be remembered that in 1914, with the declaration of war, Alsace was integrated into the German Empire since 1871. The Vosges ridges will be largely crossed by French troops and soon, the front will stabilize on the eastern (German) slope of the massif which will shelter the only mountain battlefields of the Franco-German front. The French troops are therefore on this only place of the Franco-German front in position of invader since they will fight in enemy territory, which will add an additional handicap to the already very harsh conditions of the fighting in the mountains. Of the many sites that have suffered this furious mountain fighting, few are those that will be preserved at the end of the conflict: Lingekopf, Hartmannswillerkopf and Tête des faux The classified site that is visible today at Linge represents only a small part of this battlefield that stretched over 2300 meters from the crest of Lingekopf to the summits of the Schratzmaennele and the Barrenkopf, some remains of which still emerge here and there outside the preserved site. |  |
| This secondary ridge will thus almost by chance take on strategic importance after the stabilization of the front in September 1914, giving the Germans who held it an impregnable view on the French rear, the Munster valley and the Orbey valley. From a peaceful place, without history and virgin of any construction, it will become a position of defense very well prepared by the German units. Its state of conservation still allows to measure the extreme complexity of the impossible mission entrusted to the Alpine Hunters to overcome this almost impregnable obstacle. |