Ernest Hemingway, Dickweiler
Where? 5, rue de Boursdorf, L-6557 Dickweiler
Ernest Hemingway arrived in Dickweiler on 4 January 1945, where the C Company of the 22nd Regiment (4th US Infantry Division) had set up a command post in a house.
A memorial plaque on the house of the Osweiler-Kohl family in Dickweiler (5, rue de Boursdorf) commemorates the famous American writer and war reporter Ernest Hemingway, who was at the front during the Rundstedt Offensive in the Mullerthal Region - Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.
"During a patrol along the Sûre near Dickweiler, Hemingway came under heavy fire and only narrowly escaped. His article about the heavy fighting in Luxembourg's eastern region around Echternach, Berdorf, Lauterborn, Osweiler and Dickweiler was published in January 1945 in the magazine ‘Time & Life’ Source: Marc Thill
