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THe Fort OF Fermont and his museum
An exceptional site to discover the Maginot Line.
Fermont More than 2 hours of visit to discover
the Maginot line
The Maginot Line is undoubtedly the most famous of contemporary fortifications but certainly also the least known; by visiting the fort of FERMONT you will be able to better understand what it really was and discover all its techniques, its materials and its organization.
FERMONT is indeed a journey that takes you sometimes 30 meters underground, to the heart of the structure, sometimes on the surface, in the middle of combat blocks whose surroundings still bear the scars of the fighting of 1940. A journey of about 1.2 km by small electric train will take you to the foot of block 4 which is an artillery casemate that you will visit and from where you will gain the outside.
On the surface, you will discover the other combat blocks, including the 75 turret of block 1, and learn how the FERMONT fort, attacked from the rear on June 21, 1940, under the orders of Captain Aubert, resisted all the German assaults to hold out until the armistice.
FERMONT is also, in front of the Munitions entrance, the OUTDOOR MUSEUM which houses most of the equipment used on the MAGINOT LINE.
There are notably three artillery turrets from the fort of BREHAIN which are the only ones in France to be presented to the public in this way,
and two turrets recovered from the Fort de MOLVANGE, one of 75.32 and a twin machine-gun turret.
FERMONT is finally the MEMORIAL erected in memory of the Fortress Troops "delivered to the enemy without having been defeated" to remind everyone that
the MAGINOT LINE still held on to the armistice of June 1940. FERMONT is more than two hours dedicated to remembrance…
major FORT of The Maginot Line
The Fermont fort, a fortified complex over a length of 8 km and a footprint of 27 ha, is located between Beuveille and Longuyon, 50 km from Verdun, 50 km from Metz, 40 km from the city of Luxembourg, at the gates of Belgium. It includes 7 combat blocks built partly on the territories of Montigny sur Chiers and Viviers sur Chiers.
All the galleries are at an average level of 30 m below the ground, access is possible by stairs or by 6 goods lifts, two of which were designed to receive equipment and ammunition. The main gallery, about 1 km long, is equipped with a trolley and a 60 cm track where locomotives powered by 600 volts direct current circulate, produced on site by a power plant equipped with four 225 resume. Captain AUBERT and the crew of Fermont left the fort on June 27, 1940 in front of a German military detachment.
It would have been regrettable that Fermont, unconquered on May 8, 1945, day of the armistice, suffered the common fate of dismantling by scrap dealers. It is in this spirit that the Association of Friends of the Ouvrage de Fermont and the Maginot Line was created, the aim of which is to highlight the Ouvrage de Fermont.
Opened to the public on June 12, 1977, the Fort de Fermont with its Maginot Line Museum, unique in France, continues to receive many visitors,
thanks to the teamwork of around fifty volunteers (guides, cashiers, electricians, mechanics, train drivers).