Collet you linge
| Collet you linge | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Compass direction | south | North | |
| Pass height | 987 m | ||
| Department | Haut-Rhin | ||
| Valley locations | Stosswihr Munster | Labaroche Turckheim | |
| expansion | paved road | ||
| Mountains | Vosges Linge massif | ||
| particularities | Theater of war | ||
| profile | |||
| Mountain scoring | 3rd category (1967-2001) | ||
| Ø pitch | 5.7% (612 m / 10.7 km) | 2.8% (724 m / 18 km) | |
| Max. Incline | 7.6% (on km 4–5) | 6.2% (on km 6–8) | |
| Map (Haut-Rhin) | |||
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 5 '0 " N , 7 ° 8' 24" E | ||
The Collet du Linge (Eng. Lingekopf ), more rarely referred to as Col du Linge , is a 987 meter high French pass in the Vosges in the Haut-Rhin department .
history
During the First World War , the Collet du Linge was on the front line that separated German and French troops in the Vosges. From July 20 to October 15, 1915, the pass was the scene of bloody and costly fighting (known as the Bataille du Linge in France ). French mountain troops tried in vain to storm the mountain ranges ( Lingekopf , Barrenkopf , Kleinkopf and Schratzmännele ) , which were heavily fortified on the German side with bunkers and barbed wire entanglements and defended by Bavarian Landwehr regiments with artillery and machine guns . After a final counterattack by German troops, the front froze and the focus of the conflict shifted to Hartmannswillerkopf . Until the end of the war, there were only artillery duels and raiding troops at the Collet du Linge . The clashes on this section of the front claimed a total of 17,000 deaths.
On August 9, 1981, the Musée mémorial du Linge was officially inaugurated as a memorial. This is run on a voluntary basis by a local association, provides information about the course of the battle and also shows French and German finds from the battlefield. The battlefield is listed as a monument historique .
Tour de France
1957 , 1967 and 2001 resulted stages of the Tour de France on the Collet du Linge.
Mountain classification winner
| year | stage | category | winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 7th | Louis Bergaud | |
| 1967 | 8th | 3 | Jesús Aranzabal |
| 2001 | 7th | 3 | Laurent Jalabert |
literature
In German language
- Karlheinz Deisenroth: Alsace - land between the fronts. 1699-1870, 1914-1918, 1939-1945. Theaters of war in the Vosges and Upper Rhine. 2nd Edition. Morstadt, Kehl a. Rh. 2015, ISBN 978-3-88571-374-6 , pp. 76-101, 180-184, 204, 206-213
- H. Sack: The battles and skirmishes of the great war 1914-1918 , Prussia (Kingdom). Army. Great General Staff, 1919 - 560 pages, p. 124ff.
- Bruno Kreuter . The KB Landwehr Infantry Regiment, No. 1: Depicted according to the official war diaries. No. 1, Verlag M. Schick, 1934 - 218 pages, especially p. 97ff. July-August fights
- Ritter Eduard von Herold: The KB Reserve Field Artillery Regiment, No. 8, Verlag M. Schick, 1927 - 200 pages, p. 37 ff.
- Heinz Uhl, The History of the KB 6th Field Artillery Regiment, Prince Ferdinand von Bourbon, Duke of Calabria: according to the official war diaries and private records of the comrades , B. Sporn, 1931 - 270 pages, p. 200ff.
- The World War: illustrated war chronicle of the home , No. 10, Daheim, Velhagen & Klasing, 1919
- Jan Oeltjen: I am not a warrior and do not want to become one, war diaries and letters to Elsa Oeltjen , as PDF documents online at: [1]
- Georg Hertling (Graf von), Hugo Lerchenfeld-Köfering (Graf), Ernst Deuerlein, H. Boldt, Correspondence Hertling-Lerchenfeld 1912–1917: official private correspondence between the Bavarian Prime Minister Georg Graf von Hertling and the Bavarian envoy in Berlin Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld, number 50, part 1, 1973-1048 pages
- Armand Durlewanger: The Linge Head 1915 . Editions SAEP, Colmar 1981
- Vallée de Munster: Communauté de Communes (ed.): Historischer Rundweg 1914-18 Hohrodberg-Linge . Impr. Lefranc, Munster 2008
In French
- Joseph-Auguste Bernardin (Memoriale du Linge): Dans la Fournaise du Linge avec le 5e BCP (Juillet - Août 1915) . Ed. d'Alsace, Colmar 1981
- Florian Hensel: Le Lingekopf. De 1915 à nos jours. Destruction, remise en état, revalorisation d'un champ de bataille alsacien de la Première Guerre mondiale . Jérôme Do Bentzinger, Colmar-Strasbourg 2013. ISBN 978-2-84960-362-8
- Philippe Orain (Ed.): Les champs de bataille Alsace Moselle. Les combats des Vosges , p. 216. Guides Tourisitique Michelin, Boulogne-Billancourt 2013. ISBN 978-2-06-717985-1
Web links
- Pierre's Western Front Page: Le Linge Sector: Lac Noir - Col du Wettstein - Schratzmännele (private homepage in English with numerous photographs of the former battlefield; last checked on March 29, 2019)
- Association du Mémorial du Linge, F-68370 Orbey: Musée Mémorial Le Linge 1914–1918 (trilingual website of the memorial; last checked on March 29, 2019)
- climbbybike.com : Information for cyclists in French (last checked on March 29, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ^ Philippe Orain (ed.): Les champs de bataille Alsace Moselle. Les combats des Vosges , p. 216. Guides Touristique Michelin, Boulogne-Billancourt 2013. ISBN 978-2-06-717985-1
- ^ Philippe Orain (ed.): Les champs de bataille Alsace Moselle. Les combats des Vosges , p. 215. Guides Touristique Michelin, Boulogne-Billancourt 2013. ISBN 978-2-06-717985-1
- ↑ Champ de bataille du Linge in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)