The Wissembourg Gap, with the Pfälzerwald and Bienwald marked in green
The Wissembourg Gap (French: trouée de Wissembourg, German: Weißenburger Senke) is a corridor of open terrain, approximately six kilometres (3.7 miles) wide, between the hills of the Palatinate Forest to the west and the Bienwald forest (and beyond that the Upper Rhine) to the east. It marks the border between the Palatinate to the north and Alsace to the south, and by extension between Germany and France.[1] The Gap is dominated by the French town of Wissembourg, from which it takes its name. The average altitude of the land in the corridor rises from 150 metres by the Bienwald to 250 metres by the Palatinate Forest.
Because of the Wissembourg Gap's position on the Franco-German border, it has frequently been a favoured route for military invasions, notably during the War of the Austrian Succession, the French Revolutionary Wars, the Franco-Prussian War, and the Second World War.
The WissembourgGap (French: trouée de Wissembourg, German: Weißenburger Senke) is a corridor of open terrain, approximately six kilometres (3.7 miles)...
WissembourgGap and then swept down the length of Alsace and laid siege to Belfort, hoping to seize the city and then rush on through the Belfort Gap...
about a breakthrough in the sector of Petersen's XC Korps into the WissembourgGap rather than through Simon's XIII SS Korps into the Kaiserslautern corridor...
which U.S. Seventh Army and French II Corps assaulted through the WissembourgGap, the Bienwald Forest, and the Palatinate forest, defeating German Siegfried...
Wörth am Rhein. The western edge defines the eastern extent of the WissembourgGap, a corridor of open terrain between the Bienwald and the hills of the...
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dammed and so deprived the downstream town of Weissenburg (now French Wissembourg) of its water supply. The lord built the dam near the village of Bobenthal...
support of Franz von Sickingen. Bucer's efforts to reform the church in Wissembourg resulted in his excommunication from the Catholic Church, and he was...
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Heilbronn, Reutlingen, Isny im Allgäu, St. Gallen, Weissenburg (now Wissembourg, France), and Windesheim at Speyer. Although not unusual, the use of...
to have overtaken France on both fronts. The continued widening of this gap as British trade expanded post-Utrecht was viewed by Louis's successors as...
exchange. His infantry successfully drove back the Bourbon centre but a gap opened between them and Portuguese troops on the right, under the 63-year-old...
in Saint-Avold (Moselle), followed by L'Esprit et la matière n° 2 in Wissembourg (Bas-Rhin). The superb white marble Moise ou la Victoire de la lumière...
the Austrian main force and so accelerated his march ahead to close the gap with Frederick. At 2:00 am on 17 May, his exhausted troops stopped at the...
original on 2010-07-29. Retrieved 2020-09-02. "Libération de Wissembourg sur ville-Wissembourg.eu". Archived from the original on 2008-11-14. Retrieved 2020-09-02...
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