MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF LINEN
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Museum with objects, photographs and video montages presenting the importance of the Linge as a First World War battlefield.
Dedicated to a battlefield that was one of the deadliest of the First World War, the Linen Memorial Museum was expanded in 2015 to shed new light on the bloody events that took place on the site of Le Linge (originally known as the Leinge Turf). A highly strategic place of German defence between 20 July and 15 October 1915, as it was intended to stop the advance of French troops towards Colmar. 17,000 victims perished in the fighting. The association that manages the museum has faithfully recreated the atmosphere that reigned during the summer of 1915 at the height of the fighting. Thus, three soldiers of the 74th Prussian Infantry Regiment, a German officer and a sapper occupy a trench behind which is an infantry observer's shelter. Chronologically, the visit reveals photos, objects and dioramas with life-size mannequins dressed in period uniforms. Showcases display the typical soldier's kit (tobacco, sewing equipment, swift to chase lice...), military tools as well as coins, weapons, pipes, shoes, medallions and other objects found on the battlefield. On the latter, a pathway was designed with 16 trilingual panels placed in strategic places to materialize, here and there, a shelter equipped with an anti-grenade grill, an artillery observation post. The Linge Memorial pays homage to the soldiers who fell on the battlefield while informing the public in an attractive and didactic way.
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