Orscholz Switch

The Orscholzriegel - English Orscholz switch - was a military ties and part of the Western Wall in the triangle between the Saar and Moselle. It was built in the years 1939 and 1940 and included 75 bunkers and tanks 10.2 km obstacles in the form of cusp lines. The position went from Trier to Nennig along the river and Nennig from east to Orscholz on the Saar loop of Mettlach.

" Although the West Wall in this sector lay behind the Saar, the Germans in 1939 and 1940 had constructed- a supplementary fortified line across the base of the triangle from Nennig in the west to Orscholz, at a great northwestward loop of the Saar. The Germans called the position of the Orscholz Switch; the Americans knew it as the Siegfried Switch. Assuming the neutrality of Luxembourg, the switch position which designed to protect Trier and the Moselle corridor and to preventDefault outflanking of the strongest portions of the West Wall, did lying to the southeast across the face of the Saar industrial area.

(such as: . although the Western Wall behind the Saar was, the Germans had in 1939 and 1940 a supportive fortified line built at the base of the triangle of Nennig in the west to Orscholz, on a major North westward loop of the Saar The neutrality of Luxembourg assuming was the bolt position intended to protect Trier and the Mosel- corridor and avoid the circumvention or encirclement of the strongest part of the Western Wall, which lay to the southeast, towards the industrial area in the Saar ). "

1945 - end of the Second World War - the Orscholzriegel was fought hard for months.

During the operation, Undertone ( 15 to 24 March 1945) he was on the left flank of the advancing U.S. units.