La Stèle Weimar

This white marble stele surmounted by a cross is one of the few remaining vestiges of the 1870 battlefield to bear an inscription in German. 
It was erected by veterans of the 94th Infantry Regiment of Weimar, "Grand Duke of Saxony", who, arriving from the Givonne Valley, were skirmishing on the western flank of the French cavalry at the time of the charges of the Margueritte division. 
The Prince of Saxony is indeed at the head of one of the two enemy armies whose strategy is to take the Army of Châlons in a pincer movement: with Bazaine's Army remaining encircled at Metz, Mac Mahon has only 120,000 men against the armies of the Prince of Prussia and the Prince of Saxony, i.e. 240,000 men and an invincible artillery. 
While the Prussians and Bavarians seize the left bank of the Meuse, the Saxons in the north approach the right bank behind the French forces. 
The German text on this memorial evokes the memory of the Saxon infantrymen who died in combat on September 1, 1870, and those who succumbed to their wounds in the Lazarets of Floing, Vrigne aux Bois, Saint Menges and Donchery. 
It ends with these words: “Friede sei Ihrer Asche Ehre Ihren Andeken” (Peace to their ashes, Honor to their memory).