Fort de Rosemont

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Le château en bref

The Rosemont battery, or, improperly, Fort de Rosemont on the IGN map, is a nineteenth-century military building situated on the hill of the same name, in the French city of Besançon. It is a six-gun battery hastily erected during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to support the positions at Planoise and Chaudanne. But that war never reached the city, and the battery was subsequently never used for military purposes, not even during the Second World War. The battery was named Fort Verne, after a general of the Revolution who was born in Saint-Vit and died on the battlefield in 1796 at the Battle of Arcole. Like many other works of this type, it was demilitarised, and it then suffered the ravages of time. In the 2000s, thanks to the summer grazing of a herd of goats, the remains of the sole building and the powder magazine were cleared of vegetation, but visits are now impossible because access has been banned to prevent vandalism. It is one of the smallest fortified structures in the city, along with the Trois-Châtels and Tousey lunettes and the Fort du Petit Chaudanne.