Highlight • Monument
Peace Cross on the Maimont
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Biosphärenreservat Pfälzerwald-Vosges du Nord
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July 12, 2021
Hiking
A fitting place for a peace cross and a joy that it is also located on such a unique hiking trail, the Franco-German Castle Trail.
•March 16, 2019
Hiking
According to the latest findings, the conflict took place here, on the Maimont, at the entrance to the ring wall, not far from the place where a peace cross was erected centuries later.
•June 27, 2024
Hiking
On May 13, 1940, however, during World War II, a cruel battle took place on Maimont - both on the main summit and on the secondary summit (= site of today's Peace Cross) - in which numerous French and German soldiers lost their lives. The German side had started the (surprise) attack.
The description of these events can be found in the village chronicle of Petersbächel:
petersbaechel.de/petersbaechel.html
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Elevation 470 m
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