• Discover the HWK, Alsace's main First World War site, comprises a battelfieldm a National Monument and the first Franco-German Historial.
  • Show map of Alsace. ... At Hartmannswillerkopf stands a national monument of World War I for the fighting which took place in the trenches here.
  • Standing atop the nearly thousand meter high (3,100 foot) Hartmannswillerkopf in the Vosges, one can see vast swaths of the Upper Rhine and the Alsace.
  • The Hartmannswillerkopf is an important place to remember the sacrifices of those who fought and to understand the complicated history of Alsace.
  • Le massif du Hartmannswillerkopf est un éperon rocheux pyramidal surplombant la plaine d’Alsace.
  • To the south of the Route des Crêtes, on a spur at an altitude of more than 900m, stands the Vieil-Armand (or Hartmannswillerkopf, often abbreviated to HWK).
  • Perhaps the best known of these is the Memorial Site and Trenches Walk at Vieil Armand or Hartmannswillerkopf, high in the Vosges Mountains, about 45 km...
  • This promontory which stands at 956m in altitude looking out over the plain of Alsace, is in memory of the Great War. On the battlefield, 30,000 Frenc ...
  • One of the lesser known World War One memorials is Vieil Armand (also known as Hartmannswillerkopf) in Alsace.
  • Hartmannswillerkopf is a pyramidal rocky spur in the Vosges mountains of Alsace. The mountain peak was a strategic area bitterly fought for during World War I...
  • “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana Alsace is best known for it's wine route, castles and fairy tale villages.
  • Hartmannswillerkopf is a 3,136-foot rocky spur on the eastern ridge of the Vosges Mountains in France’s Alsace region. Site of one of the least known of.
  • The Hartmannswillerkopf overlooks and dominates the Alsatian plain, the Rhine, and the Bade Country and faces the massif of the Black Forest all upon...