164th Fortress Infantry Regiment, 153rd Position Artillery Regiment
Number of blocks:
7
Strength:
490 enlisted + 17 officers (1940)
Ouvrage Mont des Welches, a gros ouvrage of the Maginot Line fortifications, is part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay. It comprises two entrance blocks, one infantry block, one artillery block, one observation block and two combination blocks. It is located between petit ouvrage Coucou and gros ouvrage Michelsberg, facing Germany. Relatively small for a gros ouvrage, Mont des Welches saw a brief period of sharp action in June 1940, when German forces moving along the rear of the Maginot Line engaged the position without success. After modest renovations in the 1950s, Mont des Welches was abandoned in the 1970s.
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OuvrageMontdesWelches, a gros ouvrage of the Maginot Line fortifications, is part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay. It comprises two entrance blocks...
about 23 km from Thionville. It is located between gros ouvrageMontdesWelches and petit ouvrage Hobling, facing Germany. Michelsberg did not see significant...
Here is the list of all ouvrages of the Maginot Line, organized by sector and type of fortification. Ouvrage translates as "works" in English: published...
Ouvrage Schoenenbourg is a Maginot Line fortification. It is located on the territory of the communes of Hunspach, Schœnenbourg and Ingolsheim, in the...
automatic rifle cloche (GFM) was tactically linked to the neighboring OuvrageMontdesWelches as an observation point. Block 4: infantry block with one retractable...
two infantry blocks, and is located between the gros ouvrages of Hackenberg and MontdesWelches, facing Germany, just north of Kemplich. Coucou was approved...
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parley, asking for the surrender of the ouvrage, which was refused. Anzeling provided covering fire for MontdesWelches. Intermittent firing continued on the...
Ouvrage Hochwald is a gros ouvrage of the Maginot Line, one of the largest fortifications in the Line. Located on the Hochwald ridge in the Fortified Sector...
Ouvrage Rochonvillers is one of the largest of the Maginot Line fortifications. Located above the town of Rochonvillers in the French region of Lorraine...
1360. Ouvrage Lembach (Ouvrage D), petit ouvrage O550 of three combat blocks and an entry block Ouvrage Four-à-Chaux (Ouvrage E), gros ouvrage O600 of...
other three ouvrages near Maubeuge, it is built on an old Séré de Rivières system fortification, near the town of Marieux. The original Fort des Sarts was...
Ouvrage du Kobenbusch is a gros ouvrage of the Maginot Line, located in the Fortified Sector of Thionville in the Cattenom Forest. It possesses seven...
Ouvrage Molvange is a large work, or gros ouvrage of the Maginot Line. The fortification complex faces the France-Luxembourg border from a height near...
Ouvrage Eth is an isolated petit ouvrage of the Maginot Line, built as part of the "New Fronts" program to address shortcomings in the Line's coverage...
Ouvrage Denting is a lesser work (petit ouvrage) of the Maginot Line. Part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay, the ouvrage consists of three infantry blocks...
Ouvrage Simserhof (French pronunciation: [uvʁaʒ simsəʁof]) is a gros ouvrage of the Maginot Line, located in the French commune of Siersthal in the Moselle...
des Régions Fortifiées (CORF), the Maginot Line's design and construction agency, and was approved for construction in August 1931. The petit ouvrage...
situated in the Cattenom Forest, near the gros ouvrage Kobenbusch and petit ouvrage Oberheid. The ouvrage was tasked with controlling the Moselle Valley...
Falaise on 17 June 1944. Both the Ouvrage d'Eth and the Fort de Maulde are abandoned. The Casemate du Cimitière-du-Mont-des-Bruyères has been open to visits...
Ouvrage Chesnois (French pronunciation: [uvʁaʒ ʃɛnwa]), also known as Ouvrage Chênois, is a gros ouvrage of the Maginot Line, located in the Fortified...
Ouvrage Hobling is a lesser work (petit ouvrage) of the Maginot Line. Located in the Fortified Sector of Boulay, the ouvrage consists of two infantry blocks...
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