Ouvrage Hackenberg

About

Hackenberg is a fortification in the Maginot line, located on the territory of the municipality of Veckring, Moselle. It is a large artillery structure, composed of a total of 19 blocks on the surface, connected by kilometers of underground galleries. Built between 1929 and 1935, it was spared the fighting of June 1940, before being reused by the Germans and served in the fighting of November 1944 against American troops.

Repaired at the beginning of the cold war, it is now a museum. It is one of the most powerful works of the Maginot line: only the work of Hochwald in the North of Alsace is comparable to it.