Nécropole nationale du Silberloch - Hartmannswillerkopf

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Nécropole nationale du Silberloch - Hartmannsweilerkopf (German: French war cemetery Silberloch - Hartmannswillerkopf)

The Nécropole nationale du Silberloch - Hartmannswillerkopf (German: French war gravesite Silberloch - Hartmannswillerkopf ) is a French military cemetery at the foot of the Hartmannswillerkopf (Vieil Armand) for 1,640 French soldiers and 384 unknown soldiers who died in the First World War in the battle for the Hartmannswillerkopf.

location

Map of the Hartmannswillerkopf on an information board at the memorial. September 2012
Access to the Hartmannswillerkopf crypt

The war cemetery northwest of Mulhouse and Cernay , named after the nearby Col du Silberloch , can be reached from Cernay via the D 431. It is located northwest of Wattwiller (and west of Hartmannswiller as the crow flies ) at the foot of the Hartmannswillerkopf. The ensemble consists of the above-ground war cemetery and the underground ossuary (crypte) for a further 12,000 unknown French soldiers. Nearby is the Historial franco-allemand du Hartmannswillerkopf .

history

The French war dead from the front section were buried in the Silberloch cemetery as early as 1915. From 1921 to 1926 he picked up the dead from scattered graves in the battlefield. The dead were reburied from the war cemeteries Wattwiller, Steinbach, Uffholtz, Willer, south of Thann, from la Doller. The military cemeteries of Moosch et von Guebwiller remained. The cemetery was declared a Nécropole nationale in 1921. In 1932 the cemetery was designed by Albert Lebrun.

Further war cemeteries around the Hartmannswillerkopf

Other unknown French war dead from the battle of the Hartmannswillerkopf rest in the underground Nécropole nationale du Vieil-Armand (Hartmannswillerkopf) in the crypte-ossuaire (ossuary), which is part of the ensemble. German and French dead are also buried in the Guebwiller war cemetery. In Cernay there is also the French military cemetery Nécropole nationale de Cernay with war dead from the First and Second World Wars.

German war dead from the First World War from the battle for the Hartmannswillerkopf and war dead from the Second World War rest in the German war cemetery in Cernay .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (fr) Information board La Nécropole nationale du Silberloch - Hartmannsweilerkopf
  2. ↑ Access via the D 431
  3. ↑ (fr) HWK: Le monument national. Le monument national et sa crypte
  4. ↑ (fr) Cimetière du Silberloch

Web links

Commons : Nécropole nationale du Silberloch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 51 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 5 ″  E