mandy hall Posted 5 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 5 August , 2012 Thanks Chris Le Linge inside museum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 5 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 5 August , 2012 plan of battlefield trenches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mandy hall Posted 5 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 5 August , 2012 As Frank has already said the crosses mark where soldiers have been found, white for French and dark green for German memorial in carpark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 5 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 5 August , 2012 memorial on opposite side of road to car park at Le Linge On Tuesday we visited Haut- Koenigsbourg Castle. It was handed to the French as part of the Treaty of Versailles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 5 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 5 August , 2012 On the way back to the gite we passed this memorial. I think it was on the D11v1 somewhere. Last stop of the day was the German Cemetery Hohrod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 6 August , 2012 Share Posted 6 August , 2012 Thanks for sharing your interesting photos, Mandy. I enjoyed seeing them and want to go back. Re post 31, Haut-Koenigsbourg was a ruin before Wilhelm II embarked on rebuilding it from 1900 onwards. German soldiers outside the restored castle: Both postcards are mine. The titling Hohkönigsburg reflects the fact that Alsace was annexed to Germany at the time. There are some old photos of his restoration work in progress here. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 6 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 6 August , 2012 thanks for the link Gwyn, you get fantastic views from the top of the castle. Few more photos from Hohrod German Cemetery, was having trouble posting last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 6 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 6 August , 2012 bunker outside the cemetery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 6 August , 2012 Share Posted 6 August , 2012 It's nice that you had the cemetery to yourselves. I'm really thrilled you've got so much out of visiting the area. I've never been inside Haut-Koenigsburg. One of my cards shows Wilhelm II arriving at St-Hippolyte Station and I imagine him being taken up to the castle from there. The station now is a wreck and there's no sign of its past. This is an early picture of Hohrod German cemetery. You might've seen the triangular monument on the left hand side if you approached the road junction with the cemetery coming into view on your right. My postcard. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 6 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 6 August , 2012 Wednesday was spent walking and looking at waterfalls, I was going to show you some photos but photobucket is not playing ball this morning. Thursday we went to the Alsace Moselle Memorial, a museum that tells the story of the area from 1870 through to WW2. A short drive away is the Struthof concentration camp. The European Centre for Deported Resistance Fighters is also on the same site, but was closed because of a lightening strike. 4 members of SOE were executed here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 6 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 6 August , 2012 We had most places to ourselves Gwyn, The Alsace Moselle Memorial museum was nearly empty, we thought it was closed when we pulled into a large car park with only about 5 cars in it. The busiest place we visited was Haut-Koenigsburg. The car parking outside was manic, but once inside it wasn't that busy, couldn't really work out where all the people were for the number of cars outside. Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottsGreys Posted 6 August , 2012 Share Posted 6 August , 2012 Mandy: Thanks for the pics of Hohrod, as I have a memorial card of an American-born soldier of the German Army, Martin Grader, who was killed in the Vosges on 31 August, 1915, and is buried at Hohrod. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1895 of German immigrant parents. The parents left the U.S. and moved the family back to Bavaria between 1900-1910. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 7 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 7 August , 2012 Glad you enjoyed the photos Chris. Gwyn might get there before me, but if I go back I promise a photo. Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 8 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 8 August , 2012 On Friday driving through Munster I spotted this sign on the cemetery wall at the top end with the WW1 graves, is this grave from WW2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 8 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 8 August , 2012 French and German graves side by side in the cemetery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 8 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 8 August , 2012 in the afternoon we walked up into the hills from our gite and came across an old battlefield cemetery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 16 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 16 August , 2012 last few photos, the view looking back down where we had walked up bunker on the edge of track Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 16 August , 2012 Author Share Posted 16 August , 2012 war memorial in the next village Hohrodberg It took us about 4 hours to walk in a big circle. That brings me to the end of our week. We had a fantastic time and can't wait to go back. Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Nix Posted 16 August , 2012 Share Posted 16 August , 2012 Have really enjoyed this thread, excellent photos, Mandy, thank you. What an interesting area. Thanks to Gwyn and Chris too. Regards Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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