Guided tour of a casemate of the Maginot line

Name: Visite guide d'une casemate de la ligne Maginot
Start: 2022-09-18T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Casemate Rieffel

Come discover a casemate like in 1940 with the association ALMO.

Dimanche 18 septembre 2022, 10h00Passé

©Association ALMO

The Friends of the Maginot Line of Oberroedern, as well as re-enactors in France 1940, will welcome you on the site of the casemate Rieffel. Discover the soldiers' daily lives and the fighting that took place in June 1940.

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

Thème 2022

Aucune sélection

I agree that the image may be freely used, provided that it is attributed to the author by name and shared under the same conditions.

Conditions de participation

Gratuit

À propos du lieu

Casemate Rieffel

33 rue de l'Herbe, 67250 Oberroedern

Bas-Rhin
Grand Est

Element of the Maginot line, the blockhouse Rieffel is the only blockhouse with basement, open to the public in Alsace. She(It) proposes a classic plan: upper floor with a bell and two rooms(chambers) of shooting(firing); lower floor which groups(includes) the zone life and the technical space. Works of this blockhouse began in 1929 to end in 1930 for part(party) concrete. Then followed the installation of the internal equipments: ventilation(breakdown)-filtering, electricity-lighting, engine, reservoirs of water, pumps and to finish the weaponry. The concrete(watertight) walls armed(equipped) make from 0.5 to 2.5 metres in thickness according to their exhibition(exposure). The bell of lookout and of shooting(firing) weighs 6 tons for an armour plating of 20 cms of steel. The access to the crenels(niches) of shooting(firing) and to the door is protected by a ditch(gap) 3 metres deep conscript ditch(gap) diamonds all over its shape. Approaches are protected by a network of antitank rails and of barbed wires. Bombed by the artillery and the German aviation in June, 1940, it carries stigmata still there.