Spicherer Berg bei Saarbrücken. Erstürmt am 6. Aug. 1870. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking along an unsurfaced track towards the Spicheren Heights, taken by the Prussians on 6 August 1870, with a memorial obelisk visible on the summit and cultivated fields in the foreground.
View looking across fields towards the houses of Forbach, a few miles south-west of Saarbrücken, with the church prominent in the centre of the photograph.