page_title: Fort de la Chartreuse
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Fort de la Chartreuse / History
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Plan du fort hollandais de la Chartreuse (Liège) construit entre 1817 et 1823. Certaines parties du fort ont été détruites en surface.
context_page_description: The Fort de la Chartreuse, which dominates the Amercœur neighborhood of Liège in Belgium, was built between 1817 and 1823 to defend the city.
context_section_description: The fort is built on a strategic height that dominates the valley of the Meuse, which had been occupied by a Carthusian (Ordre des Chartreux) monastery until the French Revolution. The fort was built by the Dutch, who at the time administered southern Belgium.
  The fort was abandoned as a fortification by the military in 1891 and was thereafter used as a barracks. From 1914 to 1918 the Germans used it as a prison, and again from 1940 to 1944. In 1944-1945 it was used by the Americans as a military hospital. The Belgian army left the site in 1988.
caption: Plan, Fort de la Chartreuse
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