Col de Saverne

[1] Transport routes that traverse the Saverne Pass include national highway RN 4 and A4 autoroute A4, the Paris-Strasbourg railway, as well as the Marne-Rhine Canal.

[3] It figured prominently into the advance of the U.S. XV Corps against German forces in the Second World War.

The rapid traversal of the Saverne Gap resulted in a breakthrough by the French 2nd Armored Division, which subsequently liberated Strasbourg on November 23, 1944.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe went through the pass twice on 23 June 1770 in order to visit Phalsbourg,[4] and mentions the pass in detail in his autobiography Dichtung und Wahrheit.

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