Wissembourg Gap

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The Wissembourg Gap, with the Pfälzerwald and Bienwald marked in green The Wissembourg Gap （French: trouée de Wissembourg, German: Weißenburger Senke） is a corridor of open terrain,
approximately six kilometres （3.7 miles） wide, between the hills of the Palatinate Forest to the west and the Bienwald forest （and beyond that the Upper Rhine） to the east.
It marks the border between the Palatinate to the north and Alsace to the south, and by extension between Germany and France.
The Gap is dominated by the French town of Wissembourg, from which it takes its name.
The average altitude of the land in the corridor rises from 150 metres by the Bienwald to 250 metres by the Palatinate Forest.
Because of the Wissembourg Gap's position on the Franco-German border, it has frequently been a favoured route for military invasions,
notably during the War of the Austrian Succession, the French Revolutionary Wars, the Franco-Prussian War, and the Second World War.
In the mediaeval period the Wissembourg Gap was an internal border within the Holy Roman Empire, marking the boundary between the County Palatine of the Rhine to the north and the Alsatian Décapole （German: Zehnstädtebund）,
a federation of ten cities including Wissembourg, to the south.
Under the 1679 Treaties of Nijmegen the Décapole was annexed by Louis XIV of France, and the Wissembourg Gap therefore became an international border between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of France.
During the War of the Spanish Succession, it was feared that the Grand Alliance （principally England, the Dutch Republic and the Habsburg Monarchy） might attempt to invade France through the Wissembourg Gap,
and so in 1706 Marshal Villars established a series of fortifications, the "Lines of Wissembourg" （French: Lignes de Wissembourg, German: Weißenburger ...