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Fortified Sector Of Haguenau
The Fortified Sector of Haguenau (''Secteur Fortifiée de Haguenau'') was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the most easterly section of the Maginot Line, to the north of Strasbourg. The left (western) wing of the Haguenau sector adjoined the Fortified Sector of the Vosges, includes two of the largest Maginot fortifications, Ouvrage Hochwald and Ouvrage Schoenenbourg. The right wing, started after 1931, was progressively scaled back in order to save money during the Great Depression, abandoning plans for four ''petit ouvrages'' and substituting casemates. The sector's northern and eastern sides bordered on Germany. To the south the sector borders the Fortified Sector of the Lower Rhine, from which it received several casemates in a boundary shift in 1940. The SF Haguenau was attacked in 1940 by German forces in the Battle of France. The sector successfully fended off German assaults before the Second Armistice at Compiègne. The positions and their ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casemate Esch 2006-1
A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which artillery, guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle.Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary When referring to Ancient history, antiquity, the term "casemate wall" means a double city wall with the space between the walls separated into chambers, which could be filled up to better withstand battering rams in case of siege (see #Antiquity: casemate wall, Antiquity: casemate wall). In its original early modern meaning, the term referred to a vaulted chamber in a fort, which may have been used for storage, accommodation, or artillery which could fire through an opening or embrasure. Although the outward faces of brick or masonry casemates proved vulnerable to advances in artillery performance, the invention of reinforced concrete allowed newer designs to be produced well into the 20th century. With the introduction of ironclad warships, the definition was widened to include a prot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhine
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Casemate D'Auenheim Nord
:''See Fortified Sector of Haguenau for a broader discussion of the Haguenau sector of the Maginot Line.'' Casemate d'Auenheim Nord is an infantry casemate of the Maginot Line located in the town of Auenheim, in Alsace. Description The casemate A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which artillery, guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle.Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary When referring to Ancient history, antiquity, th ... is a simple flanking That means the casemate has only one shooting room one built in 1932 to take in an officer, a non-commissioned officer and 20 troops. Organisation Entrance with an armoured door, shooting room, a room for filters, a room for the electric power supply, 2 restrooms and a latrine. Armament * 37 mm antitank gun * 3 twinings of machine-gun of 7.5 mm * 5 rifle machine-guns * 2 50 mm mortars * grenade launchers Notes and references {{in lang, fr} ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casemate De Rountzenheim Sud
:''See Fortified Sector of Haguenau for a broader discussion of the Haguenau sector of the Maginot Line.'' The Casemate de Rountzenheim Sud is an interval infantry casemate of the Maginot Line. The casemate is in the town of Rœschwoog in France, behind the campsite, to the south of the railway. Description The casemate A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which artillery, guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle.Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary When referring to Ancient history, antiquity, th ... is a simple flanking one, meaning that it has only one firing chamber which is directed towards the north. It has an underground gallery connecting to its neighbour, the Casemate de Rountzenheim Nord. It was built in 1932 to accommodate 15 troops, a warrant officer and an officer. Its dimensions are: 19 by 14 metres, for 7.5 metres in height. The top concrete measures 2 metres in thickness and the external wall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auenheim Sud
Auenheim (; gsw-FR, Auenem) is a former commune in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Rountzenheim-Auenheim. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Auenheimois'' or ''Auenheimoises''. Geography Auenheim is located some 15 km east of Haguenau and 13 km north-east of Bischwiller. Access to the commune is by the road D468 from Rœschwoog in the north-east which passes through the north of the commune and the village before continuing to Stattmatten in the south. The D463 branches off the D468 in the north of the commune and goes west to Rountzenheim. The TER Strasbourg-Lauterbourg railway passes through the village and there is a station in the commune which, however, appears to be disused. There is a belt of forest through the centre of the commune (the Biergrund) and a large forest in the south-east of the commune (the Unterwald) with substantial urbanisation in the nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casemate De Rountzenheim Nord
The Casemate de Rountzenheim Nord is a casemate of interval infantry of the Maginot Line The Maginot Line (french: Ligne Maginot, ), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany and force the .... The casemate is in the town of Rœschwoog in France, behind the camping site, in the north of the railway. Description The casemate is a simple flanking one, meaning that it has only one shooting room which is directed towards North. It has a gallery of underground connection to its neighbour, the Casemate de Rountzenheim Sud. It was built in 1932 to accommodate 15 troops, a warrant officer and an officer. Its dimensions on the overall ground are: 19×14 metres, for 7.5 metres in height. The concrete flagstone measures 2 metres in thickness and the external walls 2,25 metres for the exposed walls and 1 metre for the back walls. The interio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casemate D'Oberroedern Sud
The Casemate d'Oberroedern Sud, also known as Casemate Reiffel and Oberroedern Est, is a pre- World War II fortified position near the Rhine River in eastern France. The casemate was part of an extension of the Maginot Line fortifications along France's border with Germany. As a unit of the Fortified Sector of Haguenau, the casemate was part of French defences in June 1940. It has been preserved and is a component of a museum focusing on the Rhine section of the Maginot Line. The museum is located at the eastern edge of the town of Oberrœdern. Concept and design Unlike other portions of the Maginot Line, the Rhine defences were not interconnected, consisting of individual casemates or blockhouses a few hundred metres apart, arranged to fire along the length of the defended frontier.Mary, Tome 3, p. 146 In initial planning, a Maginot ''ouvrage'' with several combat blocks, interconnected and served by underground galleries, barracks and magazines, was planned for Oberroedern. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drachenbronn Air Base
Drachenbronn Air Base (''Base Aérienne 901 Drachenbronn'') of the French Air and Space Force is located in the community of Drachenbronn-Birlenbach in the Bas-Rhin département. It houses the '' Centre de détection et de contrôle 05/901.'' The base uses the underground facilities of the former Ouvrage Hochwald of the Maginot Line. Its mission is the surveillance of aviation movements in eastern France. Under budget cuts announced in October 2014 it will become an outstation of Nancy – Ochey Air Base. History In 1946 the Air Force began studies for the creation of a radar station on top of the ''ouvrage''. Construction began in 1952, and in 1955 major construction was undertaken in the ''ouvrage'' for a radar control room and operations center, which was placed in operation in 1957, originally designated ''Station Maître Radar 50/921''. The facility was briefly called ''Ouvrage H'' and was connected by data links to ''Ouvrage G'' at the Fort du Salbert near Belfort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouvrage Hackenberg
Ouvrage Hackenberg, one of the largest (a ''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line fortifications, is part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay. It is situated twenty kilometres east of Thionville, in the Moselle ''département'', near the village of Veckring, on the Hackenberg (343 metres). It is located between ''gros ouvrage'' Billig and ''petit ouvrage'' Coucou, facing Germany. The fort occupies the wooded Hackenberg ridge. Before World War II it was considered a showpiece of French fortification technology, and was visited by British King George VI. In 1940 Hackenberg was never directly attacked, providing covering fire to neighboring positions and harassing nearby German forces. Its garrison was one of the last French units to surrender after the June 1940 armistice. In 1944, under German occupation, it was in action against American forces advancing along the Maginot Line. It resisted for three days before artillery bombardment from the rear forced the Germans to evacuat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André-Gaston Prételat
A 1939 portrait of Prételat. André-Gaston Prételat (14 November 1874, Wassy, Champagne, France – 6 December 1969, Paris, France) was a general in the French Army. Military career 1910–1918 His first post, from 1910 to 1912, was as military attaché to Tangier. During the First World War he was the chief of staff of 70th Division (1915) and then of XXIII Corps (1916), before becoming the commanding officer of the 159th Regiment and Deputy Chief of Staff to Gouraud's French Fourth Army (1917), and finally Chief of Staff of the Fourth Army. After the Armistice, he became chief of staff of the Army of Alsace (1918), the troops occupying Alsace-Lorraine (annexed by France from Germany). Interwar period: 1918–1939 During the inter-war years he returned to the French colonies, acting as chief of staff in the Levant from 1919 to 1923, then as chief of staff to General Gouraud for four years from 1923. He next held three posts as general officer commanding, fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
