Fort de Landrecourt

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Le château en bref

The Fort de Landrecourt forms part of the Verdun fortified belt, built after 1874 under the Séré de Rivières system. Raised on a hill of about 330 m on the left bank of the Meuse, in the commune of Landrecourt-Lempire, it was built between 1883 and 1886. Its completion coincided with the "torpedo-shell crisis": the new explosive shells made traditional masonry vulnerable, so the work had to be modernised almost immediately. Its initial garrison numbered about 250 men, officers included, and it was armed with 155 mm, 120 mm and 90 mm guns on the ramparts, according to one of the sources consulted. Between the 1890s and 1910 it received concrete, a turret for two 75 mm guns (model 1905), two machine-gun turrets and a Bourges casemate. Remaining on the fringes of the main fighting of 1914–1918, it was not seriously damaged by bombardment. Occupied by the German army in 1940, it was stripped of some of its metal fittings from 1943 onwards. It remains today a closed military site, not open to the public, used for training.