The Drumont () is a summit of the Vosges Mountains located in the commune of Bussang, in the Vosges department of eastern France. Rising to an elevation of , the summit is largely cleared of forest and features an orientation table offering a remarkable panoramic view.
Access From the Bussang Pass, a road provides access to the summit. The road is not cleared of snow during winter.
History
During the Second World War, the Drumont became an important centre of the French Resistance. Nicolas Lutenbacher, a mountain farmer at the Drumont farm inn, and his sons acted as guides for escape routes and intelligence agents.
The farm was used several times as a meeting place for leaders of Alsatian and Vosges resistance networks. On September 21, 1944, Nicolas Lutenbacher, members of his family, and other resistance fighters were arrested by the Gestapo, which burned down the farm.
Five resistance fighters were executed on September 24, 1944, at Steingraben, below the col de Bussang, and their bodies were abandoned in a stream. On October 8, 1944, eight other resistance fighters were shot at the same location, one of whom survived.
Four memorials commemorate these events in the Drumont area.
Activities The summit of the Drumont is used by aeromodelling enthusiasts and is also a paragliding take-off site, allowing flights towards the commune of Urbès.
See also Vosges Mountains
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