Musée de la Résistance de Bondues

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The Resistance Museum is a museum located in Bondues (North).

Bondues Fort, also known as Lobau Fort, was built on the edge of Nationale 17, which links Lille to Menin, near the confluence of the Marque and the Deûle, by General Séré de Rivières from 1877 to 1880. It is an element of the chain of forts and fortifications constituting the defence device put in place by Séré de Rivières around Lille. It consists of a 720-metre perimeter red brick wall surrounded by a wide ditch. 800 men and 40 artillery pieces could be sheltered there. It included a battled cupola, but did not have shelters or stores to the test of new shells and explosives, and it was vulnerable from the heights of Mouvaux. So he served little as a defence element. He was occupied by the German army during the First World War and then during the Second World War, during which he served as a depot of ammunition (bombs for German aviation) and, from 17 March 1943 to 1 May 1944, as a place of execution (68 resistance fighters from the region were killed there). This is why today it houses a museum dedicated to the...