Mont Sainte-Odile ( or Ottilienberg ; called Allitona in the 8th century ) is a 760-metre-high peak in the Vosges Mountains in Alsace in France , immediately west of Barr . The mountain is named after Saint Odile . It has a monastery/convent at its top called the Hohenburg Abbey , and is notable also for its stone fortifications called " the Pagan Wall . " In 1992 , Air Inter flight 148 crashed near this area . The mountain and its surroundings contain evidence of Celtic settlements . The mountain enters recorded history during the Roman times ; a fortress was supposedly destroyed by the Vandals in 407 . In the second half of the 9th century , when Vikings attacked the Low Countries , which had been recently converted to Christianity and were governed from Utrecht , the Utrecht bishops went into exile and stayed for a while in Mont Sainte-Odile
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Mont Sainte-Odile