Ouvrage Bousse

About

The Bois-de-Bousse, also known as Bousse, is a fortified work of the Maginot line, located in the municipality of Hestroff, in the Moselle department. It's a small infantry structure with four blocks. Built in 1930, it was spared the fighting of June 1940. The particularity of this work is to be decorated with several murals; The renovation and visits are currently carried out by the "Fort aux Fresques" association.

Position on the line: As part of the Burtoncourt sub-sector in the Boulay fortified area, the Bois-de-Bousse building, bearing code A 24, is integrated into the "main line of resistance" between the South Edling Interval Casemate (C 61) to the north-west and the Anzeling (A 25) to the south-east, within firing range of the cannons of the major works on one side of Mont-des-Welches (A 21) and Michelsberg (A 22) to the north-west and those of Anzeling. The building is located between the villages of Hestroff and Edling, on the eastern slope of the coast 231, at the place called "Bousse" (not to be confused with the commune of Bousse). It overlooks the eastern Anzeling Valley...