A visit of Hackenberg Fortress, the largest facility of the Maginot Line, is a real flash back in the french and world history like a deep dive in the early 30's. Here, the youngest or the oldest, simple visitors or specialists will find their interest. Supported by an authentic background, our action is strictly dedicated to the remembering and memory. With a guide, on the little underground train, you will discover the inner part of one of the most impressive technical realization of the first decades of the 20st century, sent into oblivion since there. More than a myth, Maginot Line was a spectacular occasion to use some brand new technologies of that time and Hackenberg was considered as a prototype for a lot of other fortresses built later along the border until 1940.  

The Fortress was built under the wooded ridge rising to 1,125ft called Hackenberg. On the top, a little chapel dominates the valleys around. It is the last of a long serie that goes to back to antiquity. Under the Roman Empire, Agrippa's strategic road between Divodurum (Metz) and Augusta Treverorum (Trier) on the right bank of Mosel river, was already running accross this, to say the least, historical place.For those who like to go for a walk, a little path snakes among the external lay-out of the fortress, including the anti-tank ditch. A little road leads from the troop entrance  to the chapel and observatories where, if weather is good enough, you can have a unobstructed view of all the "Trois-frontières" area.