Morhange

Spellings: Morhange, Mörchingen

Coordinates: 48° 55' N 6° 38' E

French city of the Lorraine region, near the german border.

Between 1871 and 1914, Morhange (Mörchingen in German) became a small township of the German empire commanded by officers Prussiens, with a barrack in the city.

The city is leaned to hills and these hills were filled of small fortified military works that constituted the famous «defensive wall of Morhange».

The French armies - that had arrived to penetrate in the annexed Lorraine - were blocked there and forced to move back in August 1914. The battle of Morhange takes place August 19-20, 1914 where the French troops were decimate by the German artillery and where the colonel French Louis of Grandmaison was wounded six times heading his troops.

The French armies didn't come back to Morhange until the signing of the armistice in 1918,.

Integrated to the Germany Nazi in 1940, Morhange became again French after have been freed by troops Americans in 1944.

source: fr.wikipedia.org