hartmannswillerkopf

Updated: May 14, 2025

That hill was Hartmannswillerkopf, the centre of a long contest in which the French have lately been victorious; and all about us stood other crests and ridges from which German guns still look down on the valley of Thann. Thann itself is at the valley-head, in a neck between hills; a handsome old town, with the air of prosperous stability so oddly characteristic of this tormented region.

Edith Wharton - Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort