Discovery of the Maginot Aquatic Line

Name: Découverte de la Ligne Maginot Aquatique
Start: 2021-09-18T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T18:00:00+02:00
Location: L’étang de Hoste-Bas

Discover the defensive flood system implemented on the Maginot line between Hoste and Wittring in 1939 and the battles that took place there in June 1940.

18 et 19 septembre 2021Passat

©Philippe Keuer

Discover the defensive flood system implemented on the Maginot line between Hoste and Wittring in 1939 and the battles that took place there in June 1940.

On the program:

Free visit of the siphon room on the dike of the pond of Hoste-Bas. Discover the only automatic control system by siphons still existing today.
Technical explanations of the defensive flood system called today the «Aquatic Maginot Line».
Evocation of the fighting of May-June 1940.
Free visit of the blockhouse of defense of the dike.
Possibility of hiking (3 kilometers) around the pond of Hoste-Bas.

À propos du lieu

L’étang de Hoste-Bas

Digue de l’étang de Hoste-Bas, 57510 Hoste

Moselle
Grand Est

Premises(Place) containing a system of implementation of the defensive inundations of the aquatic Maginot line, the set up between 1932 and 1934\.

Etiquetas

Édifice militaire, enceinte urbaine

Accès

Access of full foot. Premises(Place) located in 30m by the parking lot.