Hello again, I joined a while ago but have been on radio silent, been looking through posts but not posting myself. I thought some people might find this interesting though (but for others it may be too derelict!)
These were from our holiday in the French Alps this summer, to a place we've been to loads, dating back to before I was born (and I'm 22). The last time we went up here, I think I was lucky enough to get a piggy back the whole way. Well, I don't remember it!
No idea on the history, I can't find anything about it. On the map, there were three ruins marked on, we'd only ever gone to the first before. Its called Les Surres, it was a long slog up from the village at the bottom. Our guess is that eventually life just became too hard for the people up here, there was no running water, no electricity. It would have been a hard life.
I was very excited by this find but no one else shared my enthusiasm!
Looked like at some point someone had been living in here
The view
The second place marked on the map was a corrigated iron roofed barn snd then slightly further on the remains of a one-room hut. This place was right out there on its own, 3-4 hours walk from the village down the bottom either way.
The third place? Large piles of stones. None the less, I snapped away. Found a couple more buildings on the way down, and everywhere was the remains of walls and pathways lost in the mists of time. And under about a foot of fallen leaves. Which were really slippy
The third set of "ruins"
Ruins that weren't on the map. Crazy French
Not derelict, but very derserving of a mention I think, were the monuments to men executed by a unit from the 179th battalion of Grenadiers of the German army who came through the area in August 1944. Also, the borther of the man who ran the campsite where we used to stay was arrested by the Gestapo on the 27th November 1943 for being a member of the local maquis. He died/was killed on 11th March 1945, aged 21, in a camp called Ellrich. I can't find much information on it except that it was a sub-campof a camp called Dora-Mittelbau, which itself had been a subcamp of another camp at Thuringe. It came with a horrific reputation. They burned down the school in the village we stayed in but amazingly, with no one inside.
Before I get stick for posting "curiosities", I would not feel happy posting about the history of this area without including them, they died for freedom and deserve to be remembered.
Edmond Gallet
Refugee who was found in a tiny village that time has passed by, I doubt its changed much in a century.
They inflicted heavy losses on the German unit.
"His brothers in arms will remember him"
I believe this is where he was executed
These ones were killed in a fight with the German battalion, included an unknown Algerian
He was the tax inspector, they took him to the river by the road and shot him.
Vultures
And a very low key camping barn, we found several of these on a different day elsewhere.
They looked rather like Anderson shelters.
I think this is a nice summary, found it in a bread oven
"For you, its a useless oven,
For your ancestors, it was vital"
Hope you enjoyed
These were from our holiday in the French Alps this summer, to a place we've been to loads, dating back to before I was born (and I'm 22). The last time we went up here, I think I was lucky enough to get a piggy back the whole way. Well, I don't remember it!
No idea on the history, I can't find anything about it. On the map, there were three ruins marked on, we'd only ever gone to the first before. Its called Les Surres, it was a long slog up from the village at the bottom. Our guess is that eventually life just became too hard for the people up here, there was no running water, no electricity. It would have been a hard life.
I was very excited by this find but no one else shared my enthusiasm!
Looked like at some point someone had been living in here
The view
The second place marked on the map was a corrigated iron roofed barn snd then slightly further on the remains of a one-room hut. This place was right out there on its own, 3-4 hours walk from the village down the bottom either way.
The third place? Large piles of stones. None the less, I snapped away. Found a couple more buildings on the way down, and everywhere was the remains of walls and pathways lost in the mists of time. And under about a foot of fallen leaves. Which were really slippy
The third set of "ruins"
Ruins that weren't on the map. Crazy French
Not derelict, but very derserving of a mention I think, were the monuments to men executed by a unit from the 179th battalion of Grenadiers of the German army who came through the area in August 1944. Also, the borther of the man who ran the campsite where we used to stay was arrested by the Gestapo on the 27th November 1943 for being a member of the local maquis. He died/was killed on 11th March 1945, aged 21, in a camp called Ellrich. I can't find much information on it except that it was a sub-campof a camp called Dora-Mittelbau, which itself had been a subcamp of another camp at Thuringe. It came with a horrific reputation. They burned down the school in the village we stayed in but amazingly, with no one inside.
Before I get stick for posting "curiosities", I would not feel happy posting about the history of this area without including them, they died for freedom and deserve to be remembered.
Edmond Gallet
Refugee who was found in a tiny village that time has passed by, I doubt its changed much in a century.
They inflicted heavy losses on the German unit.
"His brothers in arms will remember him"
I believe this is where he was executed
These ones were killed in a fight with the German battalion, included an unknown Algerian
He was the tax inspector, they took him to the river by the road and shot him.
Vultures
And a very low key camping barn, we found several of these on a different day elsewhere.
They looked rather like Anderson shelters.
I think this is a nice summary, found it in a bread oven
"For you, its a useless oven,
For your ancestors, it was vital"
Hope you enjoyed
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