Langemark
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/8044
- Note
- "Langemark is a village in the Belgian province of West-Flanders, and a subdivision of the municipality of Langemark-Poelkapelle. The village has about 5,000 inhabitants. Besides the village center, there are also three smaller hamlets on the territory, Madonna [nl], Bikschote and Saint-Julien/Sint-Juliaan.
Written as Langemarck on French, British and German maps, the village is known in military history as the scene (see trench map) of the first gas attacks by the German army in the western front, which marked the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915.
Before and during the First Battle of Ypres, the German reserve corps suffered enormous losses: over 10,000 young soldiers (some only 15 years old), led by young officers without practical experience, died without achieving any objective. On 10 November 1914, about 2,000 soldiers died during an attempted breakthrough. One day later, the German Command (Oberste Heeresleitung) published the following communiqué:" - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020) - Latitude
- 50.913299560547
- Longitude
- 2.9181001186371
- Population
- 5,079
- Time zone
- Europe/Brussels
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Vivatband anlässlich der Schlacht bei Langemarck, 1. Weltkrieg 1915
Band aus gelber Halbseide mit...
Object information
Image: Museum Weißenfels - Schloss Neu-Augustusburg - CC BY-NC-SA
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