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About Maginot
Line
The purpose of this fortified line
was to defend the opened borders of the French territory. It
bears the last name of André Maginot who, as Minister of War in
1930, asked the parliament to vote the funds for the project .
This project was an answer to the terrible suffering of WWI,
like during the battle for Verdun, and was to spare the blood of
soldiers.
However the first studies were realized in early 1928, the major
works started only in 1930 with the supplies voted. Due to
geographical and political considerations, this line was mostly streching
out from the Ardennes to the Rhein river, in the Alps and in
Corsica. At the dawn of hostilities, its most completed part was
situated along the north east border with Germany, in order to
close the Moselle and the Rhein valleys, that had always been
natural ways of invasion. |
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Hackenberg Fortress
The construction started in 1930 as one of
the very first to be built. For that reason, it was considered
as a prototype for the artillery fortresses of the Maginot Line.
During six years, around 1800 workers, with rudimentary means,
were employed to build 19 combat blocks and to drive more than
10 kilometers of galleries. After 1933 and the achievment of the
major works, the fortress was fitted out with its equipments
and delivered to the military command in 1936.
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After the
declaration of war in 1939, the fortress was placed in full alert
state all the Phoney War long and was involved in the fights during the
german offensive of may and june 1940. It only surrended a few
days after the armistice, signed on the 25th of june. Later, in november 1944, it
has been breached by General George S. Patton's Third US Army on the
occasion of the bloody battle for Moselle River. |
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SHORT HISTORICAL FLASHBACK
© AMIFORT VECKRING
- Site officiel de l'association - Conception
E. VOGEIN
- version 1.2 |
André Maginot |
