Pierre Grande Guerre
New member
Necropole Nationale le Linge, Col du Wettstein
Dear Friends,
It took me some time, but since a few weeks I have finished my chapter of 18 photo impressions of “The Forgotten Front” in the Vosges Mountains in Alsace, France. With 250 photo’s I try to show you the situation of nowadays of the bunkers and trenches on the passes and summits of the mountains.
In between the pictures and in some frames I have written some concise texts, telling about the horrible events that happened on these sites.
Although the summits are not that high as for instance the Alps, I was again very impressed by the sight of these battlefields, where the fights took place on steep slopes on difficult terrain. Especially during the severe winters the circumstances in the mountains must have been very harsh for the soldiers. Some sites show that the No-man’s-land was often only a few meters wide. The heritage of steel and concrete, the Germans left behind, is still very impressive.
If you visit my photo impressions, perhaps you will also learn that the landscape of the Vosges is nowadays very peaceful and beautiful (especially on the pages about the Road of the Ridges, the “Route des Crêtes”).
These 18 pages show the battlefields of Col du Bonhomme, Col de Mandray, Tête de Faux, Le Linge or Lingekopf, Col du Wettstein, Schratzmännele, Hohrodberg, Le Grand Honack, Route des Crêtes, and the Vieil Armand or Hartmannswillerkopf.
I am still not ready yet with my explorations of interesting sites along the Forgotten Front. Next year I hope to visit other interesting sites in the Vosges Mountains.
If you are interested, please click on “ALSACE VOSGES Col du Bonhomme” , and follow the links "lees meer"(= READ MORE) and below the pages further on.
Thank you for visiting my photo impressions!
Pierre GG
Some samples:
1st German line, Lingekopf.
2nd German line, Lingekopf.
German Dressing Station, le Grand Honack
German Field Altar, Hohrodberg
Dora Bunker, Hartmannswillerkopf
Some visitors come, view some pages, leave, and return another time, to pick up where they left. Thanks for your reaction, Joe!