Useful information
- Phone : +33 3 29 88 19 16
- Website: : http://www.memorial-verdun.fr
Description
Built in 1885 and reinforced several times up to 1913, Douaumont fort was covered with a concrete shell and several metres of sand. This strategical observatory was taken by the Germans at the beginning of the Battle of Verdun, then re-taken by French eight months later. Galleries, casemates and arsenals show that the fort was an important stronghold. A chapel marks the site of a walled-up gallery where 679 German soldiers, killed in the accidental explosion of an ammunitions store, were buried on 8 May 1916.
Localisation
Things to see and donearby
- The Green Guide4 m - 55100 Douaumont
- The Green Guide1.46 Km - La Wavrille, 55100 Douaumont
- The Green Guide2.43 Km - 1 avenue du Corps-Européen, 55100 Fleury-devant-Douaumont
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Where to sleepnearby
- From €46Le bleu Levant2.73 Km - 24 allee des Tilleuls, 55400 Vaux-devant-Damloup
- From €90Les Orchidées , Hôtel & Restaurant5.9 Km - Rue Robert Schuman, 55100 Verdun-sur-Meuse
- From €78Gîte Belleville-sur-Meuse, 4 pièces, 4 personnes - FR-1-585-426.31 Km - 46 rue du Général Mangin, 55430 Belleville-sur-Meuse
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Where to eatnearby
- Les OrchidéesAround€325.86 Km - 368 Rue Robert Schumann, 55100 Verdun
- Hostellerie du Château des Monthairons€€€MICHELIN 202417.5 Km - 26 route de Verdun, 55320 Les Monthairons
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