Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The map works fine.? Lovely area. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 11/14/2018 12:25 AM, Philippe via LUG wrote: > Thank you all for viewing and commenting > > Douglas : my village is called La Petite Pierre ( Little Stone in French). > In the local dialect it goes by the name of Lutzelstein (very close to old > English as it goes). Mungg is a joke. I nicknamed our new to us house > Mungg, with reference to a Swiss lodge in a Swiss village we used to go a > lot to, before buying our own Mungg (which means Marmot in the Swiss > dialect over there). > > No serious battles here, even if General Leclerc?s 2nd Armoured Division > stopped there for the night on their way to free Strasbourg (WWII). The > Ligne Maginot is a bit further north. And Germany about 50km from there. > > The city was fortified indeed, under Louis XIVth rule, by Vauban who was > the leading engineer. And then again by Napoleon, etc. > > Here?s an attempt to copy the address in Google view. Our house should be > in the top left corner, next to the 135 yellow label, along the Route de > Zittersheim. Meadows on one side, forest on the other one, downhill for a > few km and the next village. > https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8550328,7.3193726,861a,35y,11.56h,44.77t/data=!3m1!1e3 > > <https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8550328,7.3193726,861a,35y,11.56h,44.77t/data=!3m1!1e3> > > Thanks again > > AMities > Philippe > > >> Le 13 nov. 2018 ? 22:56, Douglas Barry via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a >> ?crit : >> >> Very poignant, Philippe - torn between two countries. It's a lose lose >> situation whichever way you turn. Several of my relatives served in the >> British forces during WW1, but then they returned home and fought for >> Irish independence. >> >> Your village - Mungg? - was it on the front line? I ask as I see rising >> ground with trees on it in a couple of the images that remind me of >> abandoned fortifications? >> >> Douglas >> Douglas Barry >> Monkstown, >> Co. Dublin >> >> ________________________________ >> From: LUG <lug-bounces+douglasb50=hotmail.com at leica-users.org> on >> behalf of Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Monday 12 November 2018 20:48 >> To: Leica Users Group; leicareflex at freelists.org; Olympus Camera >> Discussion >> Cc: Philippe >> Subject: [Leica] IMG: WWI celebrations in rural France >> >> As you may know, I now live in a small village in Alsace. This area was >> German in 1914, and turned French in 1918 as it was before 1870 ... >> >> Local people there were then forced to join the German troops, or flee, >> and get enrolled on the French side only to fight their brothers or >> cousins ? >> >> The 360 souls village lost 37 young men between 1914 and 1918. >> >> Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the end of that war, and I >> witnessed the local celebrations and hommage. >> No, it did NOT rain ... >> >> The series starts here: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/LPP-11-11-2018-1528.jpg.html >> >> Click on the right arrow to proceed to the end. >> >> All my be viewed larger. >> >> >> Amities, and may peace be with us all, fovever. >> >> >> Philippe >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >