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Europe
Orbey
Grand Est
France
Europe
Orbey
Travel Guide
Champ de Bataille de La Guerre 1914-1918, Orbey, First World War Cemetery/Memorial Wettstein 48° 5' 18.24" N 7° 7' 5.04" E http://www.alsace1418.fr/b-entree.html
Champ de Bataille de La Guerre 1914-1918, Orbey, First World War Cemetery/Memorial Wettstein 48° 5' 18.24" N 7° 7' 5.04" E http://www.alsace1418.fr/b-entree.html
The LINGE is a first world war (1914 - 1918) battlefield, where one of the bloodiest confrontations of the war took place between July 20th and October 15th 1915, resulting 17000 deaths. Near this impressing graveyard there a museum.
The LINGE memorial museum displays French and German objects found on site: weapons, munitions, personal objects and relics. Models of French and German infantry men, scale models of the battlefield, photos, texts, maps. Outside you can walk over the battlefield with the remains of the trenches.