dimanche 24 février 2008

Le léomont


Le promontoire du Léomont constituait un observatoire de premier intérêt et les combats pour sa possession entre les allemands et les soldats - pour la plupart lorrains de la Division de Fer -, ont été d'une extrême violence. Le village de Vitrimont fut détruit. Le monument à la gloire des soldats de la Division de Fer a été dynamité par les allemands dès l'Occupation de Lunéville en 1940 en raison de la référence à la "sauvagerie" allemande inscrite sur son socle, c'était l'oeuvre du sculpteur Broquet.
Celui-ci a été reconstruit en 1950.
La Lorraine possède de nombreux monuments et cimetières à la mémoire de la première et de la deuxième guerre mondiale. C'est un pays de Mémoire.

The headland of Léomont was an important observation post. Battles were hard between German and French to have it. The village of Vitrimont was destroyed. This monument to the glory of the soldiers of the iron division was dynamited by the German in 1940 as Luneville was occupied. The monument was rebuilt in 1950.
The Lorraine is full of monuments and cemeteries in memory of the World War I and World War II. It's a land of memory.

4 commentaires:

Anonyme a dit…

War is really amazing and fought over things that often do not make any sense at all. I just read that the next few wars will be over water and rights to water. Hard to imagine that we still flush toilets with good drinking water and wash cars with good drinking water. There must not be a shortage yet so those new wars must be off in the future. This is a nice photograph and the narrative is interesting too. I guess it set me off. LOL

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Carraol a dit…

Hi, very interesting and sad history of this part of your land. Great post!

Dadu Jones a dit…

Un site méconnu que j'aime énormément.

...et une vue superbe.