Adjacent to a German cemetery, the Bertrimoutier cemetery holds 933 French soldiers, 12 Russians and a Romanian who died during the fighting in the Vosges at Le Violu, Ban-de-Laveline and Spitzemberg in 1914-1918. Created in 1921, this cemetery was developed in 1924 in order to bring together the bodies exhumed from the military cemeteries at Lesseux, Provenchères and Le Violu. The commune of Bertrimoutier was awarded the 1914-1918 Croix de Guerre (War Cross).
References:The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.