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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.

The Casemate de Rountzenheim Nord is a casemate of interval infantry 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,...

. 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 in the town of Rœschwoog in France, behind the camping site, in the north of the railway.

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, that means it has just only one shooting room which is directed towards North. It has a gallery of underground connection to its neighbor, the Casemate de Rountzenheim Sud

Casemate de Rountzenheim Sud

The Casemate de Rountzenheim Sud is an interval infantry casemate of the Maginot Line. The casemate is in the town of Rœschwoog in France, behind the campsite, to the south of the railway.-Description:...

. It was built in 1932 to accommodate 15 troops, a warrant officer and an officer. Its dimensions on the overall ground are: 19 X 14 meters, for 7,5 meters height. The concrete flagstone measures 2 meters thickness and the external walls 2,25 meters for the exposed walls and 1 meter for the back walls.

The interior is organized on only one level, where we will find:

• An entrance corridor
• A rest room
• A shooting room
• A latrines
• An access shaft to the underground gallery
• A water reserve

Armament

For its brought closer defense, the casemate has two light machine guns of 7,5 mm and a cloche GFM, One machine gun located in protection of the entrance door, the other on the crenels of the shooting room and the diamant ditch.

In the shooting room, are two twinnings of machine-guns of 7,5 mm, one of them can be replaced in the event of need by an anti-tank gun of 37 mm.

A mortar of 50 mm can be adapted on the cloche GFM.

External links

The casemate on the A.A.L.M.A. website