See Fortified Sector of Haguenau

Fortified Sector of Haguenau

The Fortified Sector of Haguenau was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the most easterly section of the Maginot Line, to the north of Strasbourg...

 for a broader discussion of the Haguenau sector of the Maginot Line.

Casemate d'Auenheim Nord is an infantry casemate

Casemate

A casemate, sometimes rendered casement, is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired. originally a vaulted chamber in a fortress.-Origin of the term:...

 of the Maginot Line

Maginot Line

The Maginot Line , named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defences, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in light of its experience in World War I,...

 located in the town of Auenheim

Auenheim

Auenheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin déparetment in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...

, in Alsace

Alsace

Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...

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Description

The casemate

Casemate

A casemate, sometimes rendered casement, is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired. originally a vaulted chamber in a fortress.-Origin of the term:...

is a simple flanking one built in 1932 to take in an officer, a non commissioned officer and 20 troop men.

Organization

Entrance with an armoured door, shooting room, a room for filters, a room for the electric power supply, 2 rest rooms and a latrine.

Armament

• 37 mm antitank gun
• 3 twinings of machine-gun of 7.5 mm
• 5 riffle machine-gun
• 2 50 mm mortars
• grenades lauchers