Drumont, Mountain summit in Bussang, France
Drumont is a Vosges summit above Bussang whose two tops are the Grand Drumont at 1,223 m and the Petit Drumont at 1,200 m, on the border of the Haut-Rhin and Vosges departments. The Petit Drumont is the cleared, grassy top, marked by two low pale stone blocks and a rusted metal orientation plate of 1891 bearing the name and the altitude 1200.
Nicolas Lutenbacher, the marcaire of the Drumont farm inn, and his sons acted as smugglers and intelligence agents, and the farm hosted meetings of Alsatian and Vosges resistance leaders. On 21 September 1944 the Gestapo arrested them and burned the farm; five were executed on 24 September at the Steingraben below the Col de Bussang, and eight more on 8 October, one surviving. Four steles in the area commemorate these events.
The summit's open chaume, a cleared mountain pasture, is why the Drumont is the most visited of Bussang's three peaks. A farm inn there served marcaire meals, the hearty fare of Vosges mountain herders, from mid-April to 1 November; it closed in 2023. The long-distance Infernal Trail des Vosges traditionally sends its 200 km race over the summit.
A road runs from the Bussang pass up to the summit, though winter weather often makes it impassable during cold months. Visitors should come prepared for changing mountain conditions and wear sturdy footwear.
The summit has two peaks: the Grand Drumont at 1,223 m and the Petit Drumont at 1,200 m, the one reached by the forest road from the Col de Bussang. The rusted metal orientation plate carries the name Drumont and the figure 1200. The Drumont is also the traditional high point of the 200 km course of the Infernal Trail des Vosges, an annual ultra-trail race.
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