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entry galleries. From there a long gallery runs at an average depth of 30 metres (98 ft) to the combat blocks. Schiesseck was served by a 60 cm-gauge narrow-gauge railway, which enters at the munitions entrance and runs all the way out through the galleries to the combat blocks. On the surface, the railway connects to supply points to the rear and to other
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Schiesseck comprises two separate entrance blocks for ammunition and personnel, four infantry blocks, four artillery blocks and one observation block. The munitions and personnel entries are located far to the rear of the combat blocks. The underground barracks are located at the junction of the two
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under the command of Chef de Bataillon Stoquer comprised 679 men and 223 officers of the 37th Fortress Infantry Regiment and the 150th Position Artillery Regiment. The units were under the umbrella of the 5th Army. The nearby Casernement du Freudenberg provided peacetime above-ground barracks and
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is a distributed fortification, with its entrances and underground support areas more than a kilometer to the rear, connected to the combat blocks by a long underground gallery. The "palm" is composed of the grouped combat blocks, linked by galleries to the main trunk.
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in direct fire against the position's embrasures. By late on the 18th the Americans occupied the surface in all areas except Block 2, which resisted until 20 December. The following day tank-dozers covered the firing positions and ditches.
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of 1944 Schiesseck was occupied by German forces and presented a point of resistance to American advances, requiring heavy bombardment and infantry assaults by engineer units to capture. The area was abandoned during the
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as the preferred term for the Maginot positions, in preference to "fort", a term usually reserved for older fortifications with passive defensives in the form of walls and ditches. The literal translation of
473:: SIngle block with one JM/AC47 embrasure, one twin machine gun embrasure and one GFM cloche. The casemate is immediately adjacent to Block 9 and covers the road and the block, but is not connected to the 588:, abandoning Schiesseck. The 100th returned on 15 March 1945 and attacked the area on a broad front. Because Schiesseck's visible installations had been effectively destroyed in December, the 600:
Following World War II, interest revived in the use of the Maginot Line to defend against a possible Soviet advance through southern Germany. Funds were allocated for restoration of the
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Schiesseck saw relatively little action in 1940 compared to its neighbors, and surrendered to the Germans with the rest of the Bitche fortifications on 30 June 1940.
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had reached the Vosges region. Schiesseck was occupied by elements of the German 25th Panzer Grenadier Division. On 14 December, the 398th regiment the
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Schiesseck's entrances are visible from the road, but the combat blocks are located on military land and are not accessible.
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in the main Maginot Line often closely resembles a casemate, but is more lightly armed and can hold more occupants.
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forces. It was abandoned in the early 1970s. Schiesseck is on military land and is not visitable by the public.
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in late December. The Seventh Army was pulled back to occupy positions previously held by the
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assaulted Schiesseck, after an aerial and artillery bombardment, even using captured German
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with two GFM cloches, linked by an underground gallery to the Observatoire du Freudenberg.
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37th Fortress Infantry Regiment (RIF), 150th Position Artillery Regiment (RAP)
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itself played no role in the German defense. The area was quickly captured.
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is a large fortification with a significant artillery component, while a
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is an infantry shelter, sometimes underground or under earth cover. An
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Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II
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for a broader discussion of the Rohrbach sector of the Maginot Line.
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Kaufmann, J.E., Kaufmann, H.W., JancoviÄŤ-PotoÄŤnik, A. and Lang, P.
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frontier. Schiesseck saw comparatively little activity during the
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and infantry shelters are in the vicinity of Simserhof, including
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support services to Schiesseck and other positions in the area.
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in the sense of a fortification in English is "work." A
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Index

Maginot Line
France
Ouvrage Schiesseck is located in France
49°03′35″N 7°23′57″E / 49.05972°N 7.39917°E / 49.05972; 7.39917
Battle of France
Lorraine Campaign
Battle of the Bulge
sector
Fortified Sector of Rohrbach
Maginot Line
Bitche
French
Moselle
Simserhof
Otterbiel
Fortified Sector of Rohrbach
German
Battle of France
Lorraine Campaign
Battle of the Bulge
Warsaw Pact
automatic rifle cloche (GFM)
observation cloche (VDP)
twin machine gun cloches
47mm anti-tank gun
casemates
Fortified Sector of Rohrbach
U.S. Seventh Army
Alexander Patch
U.S. 100th Infantry Division

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