Guided tour of work Maginot du Michelsberg

Name: Guided tour of work Maginot du Michelsberg
Start: 2018-09-15T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Ouvrage de Michelsberg - Ligne Maginot

Bare of the famous Maginot line across the big work of Michelsberg. Two hours of guided tour in subterranean 30 m to know the last French fortification.

15 and 16 September 2018Passed

Conditions

Adult: 2,50 €, Child: 1€ (8-14 years). Plan(Provide for) hot clothes (t°13°c)

Association Ouvrage du Michelsberg

The guide will make you travel in time(weather) by travelling(browsing) the long underground galleries. You will find materials(equipments) there extremist modern for time(period), some of them will be reactivated.
These equipments were confided(entrusted) to 515 men(people), you will discover the life of the soldiers of the Maginot line. But also fights which they lived.

About the location

Ouvrage de Michelsberg - Ligne Maginot

Route de Férange, 57320 Ebersviller

Moselle
Grand Est

Work of artillery of the Maginot line. Built from 1930, he(it) was delivered to the army in 1937\. The fort was a part of the Sector Strengthened by Boulay (SF), itself included into the Region Strengthened by Metz. Michelsberg is compound(made up) of a mixed entrance(entry) which welcomed the men(people), the ammunitions and the materials(equipments). Forward it aligned five blocks of fight provided with six artillery, two mortar, dozens of rifles and machine guns. His(Her,Its) power of shot was a ton of shell per minute within more than twelve kilometres. The imposing turret of 75 is an inescapable(major) equipment of work. With its 265 tons, it is the biggest model of turret of the Maginot line.
It is about a real underground city located in a 30 metre depth. The buried premises(places) possess ultra modern installations with huge generators, electrical cookings(kitchens), a headquarter, a barracks and a small train which travelled(browsed) more than a kilometre of gallery. Michelsberg distinguished itself in June, 1940 by fights which he(it) delivered to the enemy. Attacked(Affected) by the 95th idem German, its defence obliged him(it) to pull(fire) more than 6200 shells. It is undefeated and without weakness(fault) that the crew(equipage) of Michelsberg left work in July, 1940\.