Fort Deroulede
| Feste Kameke/Fort Deroulede | |
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 Feste Kameke/Fort Deroulede
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| Coordinates | 49°05′09″N 6°04′56″E / 49.0857°N 6.0821°E |
| Type | fort of type von Biehler |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1876-1879 |
| Fate | not used |
The Feste Kameke, renamed Fort Déroulède by the French in 1919, is a military installation near Metz. It is part of the first fortified belt of forts of Metz and had its baptism of fire in late 1944, in the Battle of Metz.
The first fortified belt of Metz consists of forts Fort Saint-Privat (1870), Fort de Queuleu (1867), Fort Bordes (1870), Fort de Saint-Julien (1867), Fort Gambetta, Fort Déroulède, Fort Decaen, Fort de Plappeville (1867) and Group Fortifications Of Saint-Quentin (1867), most of them unfinished in 1870, when the Franco-Prussian War broke out. During the Metz, oscillated between a German garrison of 15,000 and 20,000 men at the beginning of the period, and will exceed 25,000 men just before the First World War. Gradually Metz becomes the premier stronghold of the German Reich.
The Feste Kameke is designed in the spirit of the "detached forts" concept developed by Hans Alexis von Biehler in Germany. The goal was to form a discontinuous enclosure around Metz with strong artillery batteries spaced with a range of guns. The fort was built by German engineers between 1876 and 1879.
From 1890 the stationing of the garrison is guaranteed by the fort troops Corps XVI stationed at Metz and Thionville. Invested by the French army in 1919, the fort Kameke is renamed "fort Déroulède". It was taken again in 1940 by the Germans. The German army occupied the fort during 1940-1944. After the war, the fort was taken over by the French army. Until 2002, the fort served as a repository of chemical weapons, bombs or unexploded shell of phosgene or sulfur mustard, mainly dating from World War I. The fort is now not used.
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