Urbeis, France, memorial of Lingekopfes
, Urbeis, Alsace, France - Le Memorial du Linge 1915: der Lingekopf in den Vogesen, heute eine Gedenkstaette, war Ort von harten Kaempfen zwischen Deutschen und Franzosen im Ersten Weltkrieg in den Vogesen. Hier fielen hauptsaechlich 1915 ueber Soldaten. Die Bergspitze (986m) wechselte unzaehlige Male das Lager, wobei die Deutschen mit ihren Stellungen auf den Kaemmen die bessere Position hatten. Die Franzosen gruben sich wenige Meter unterhalb ein. Foto: Blick aus deutschem Schuetzengraben auf weisse Kreuze, die den Fundort von spaeter exhumierten franzoesischen Soldaten markieren. / Le Linge, peak of a mountain in the Vosges, was a place of fierce battles between Germans and French in World War I. Mainly in 1915 soldiers died here. Mostly the Germans had the higher position and the French digged in some meters below. Picture: View from a German trench to crosses marking later on exhumed French soldiers. GT
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Location: Urbeis, Alsace, France
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