Fort de Mutzig

En un regard

Le château en bref

Fort de Mutzig, originally named Feste Kaiser Wilhelm II. ("Kaiser Wilhelm II Fortified Group"), is a military fortification built from 1893 by the German Empire in the commune of Mutzig, in Alsace (now in the Bas-Rhin department). The training ground extends around the fort, namely north of Mutzig and across the neighbouring communes of Molsheim and Dangolsheim. By virtue of its extent and firepower, this fortification was the largest in the German Empire when the First World War broke out but, owing to the course of the Schlieffen Plan and its distance from the front, it played only a minor role there. As the first military fortification built after the "torpedo-shell crisis", it was the subject of experiments that would lead to the new type of fortified works used, among others, in the Maginot Line.