visiting the ardennes

[Jolly Roger]

Hi,

since ima visit my sister who lives near the ardennes i am going to make a daytrip to La Gleize to see the Kingtiger. I just wonder if anyone knows some other places that are worth being visited near La Gleize. Thanks for your help in advance

Ben

[PerMilitaria]

Hello!
I was in the Ardennes a few weeks ago. I think you must visit Malmédy and Poteau. Poteau has a great museum!

Regards: Per.

[boyouLaGleize.]

Try to go to La Roche,a nice museum in comparaison with the poor museum of Poteau for the same price.
La Roche is 30 minutes from La Gleize.
From La Gleize you go to Trois-Ponts,Vielsalm,la Baraque de Fraiture and finally La Roche.
Museum is in the centrum of the town,easy to park your car and a lot of coffee to take a drink or eat something.

[Ostfries]

Ardennes,

You should indeed go to the La Roche en Ardenne museum, here the link to the museum website, http://www.batarden.be/ , also take a good look around when you are driving to La Roche, lots of monuments and vehicles in the villages you cross. Also take a look in Stavelot, there’s a US halftrack besides the bridge where kampfgruppe Peiper crossed the river Ambleve, also have a look at an more unknown remain of WWII, its between Stavelot and Trois Ponts, you see a little bridge over the Ambleve, its called Petit Spay, in the third curve in the road you will find an old building called “kinderheim”, an platoon of kampfgruppe Knittel has bin in some fierce fighting there, you can still see some bulled wholes and other damage on the old building, just a good place to visit and feel history, have fun.

[Jolly Roger]

thanks a lot for your help

[Ostfries]

Ardennes trip,

thanks a lot for your help

No thanks, my pleasure, perhaps you could post some pictures here when you get back from your Ardennes trip.

[DOC_KÜSTENART]

I'm going too this september, any other remarcable place???
I'll take a lot of pictures!! any militaria shop in the area??
Best regards
Doc

[Ostfries]

interesting museums,

I'm going too this september, any other remarcable place???
I'll take a lot of pictures!! any militaria shop in the area??
Best regards
Doc

Here a list of interesting museum links in the Belgium Ardennes and Luxemburg, there are also interesting vehicles and monuments in some villages you cross, Panther tanks in Celles, Grandmenil and Houffalize, but lots of other vehicles and monuments too, keep your eyes open when you drive through the Ardennes country site, have fun.

La Gleize,
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Poteau,
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Thimister-Clermont,
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La Roche en Ardenne,
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Butgenbach,
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Diekirch Luxemburg,
http://www.nat-military-museum.lu/

[kale010]

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=187943

We went last year with a WAF group and had lots of fun. The King Tiger is a must see, same as the museum where the Tiger is standing in front of.

Well just check the thread for more info

have fun and some us the pics

Cheers
Bob

[DOC_KÜSTENART]

thanks a lot guys!! I have a metal detector, is it allowed to search for any treasure?
best
Doc

[Jolly Roger]

Hi,

thanks again for your information. I took some pictures on my trip and put together a slideshow. Im not too sure wether you like the music but I thought it went well with the pictures.
I hope you will enjoy the pictures,

Ben

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[Kozlov]

Diekirch is the place to visit! If you like fascist junk, its full of it!!

Particularly notable are the huge cases of German soldiers personal photographs. These tell a story far more detailed and true than the usual propaganda BS. You could spend a couple of hours just picking through those!

[Ostfries]

“kinderheim”?,

Hi,

thanks again for your information. I took some pictures on my trip and put together a slideshow. Im not too sure wether you like the music but I thought it went well with the pictures.
I hope you will enjoy the pictures,

Ben

Nice slide show Ben, did you also pay a visit to the “kinderheim” near Trois Ponts?.

[Jolly Roger]

Nice slide show Ben, did you also pay a visit to the “kinderheim” near Trois Ponts?.

Kinderheim? I didnt hear about a place called Kinderheim, so I guess not

Ben

[SurvivingPanzer]

La Roche was my favorite city in the Ardennes. It has an M-4, an M-10 and a museum. The city itself is beautiful. The Poteau museum is by no means overrated, the have a SU-100, M-4, M-5, 105MM German Howitzer and both American and German Halftracks (even if the German is a Czech Tatra). It also have a couple of rooms of smaller objecs including rifles and uniforms. The ride on a halftrack is interesting enough.