page_title: Ouvrage Kobenbusch
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Ouvrage Kobenbusch / Description
caption_attribution_description: Maginot Line - Gros Ouvrage Kobenbusch - Bloc 2
context_page_description: Ouvrage Kobenbusch is a gros ouvrage of the Maginot Line, located in the Fortified Sector of Thionville in the Cattenom forest. It possesses seven combat blocks and two entrance blocks, one for ammunition and the other for men. It is located between petit ouvrage Bois-Karre and petit ouvrage Oberheid, and was named for the surrounding Kobenbusch forest. The position saw little action during World War II. Its deep passages have been flooded by the construction of a cooling water lake for a nearby nuclear power plant, but its surface features are being developed with an interpretive path through the surrounding forest.
context_section_description: Kobenbusch is a relatively compact gros ouvrage, with a short main gallery leading in from the munitions and personnel entrances past to underground barracks to the combat blocks.  Unusually for a gros ouvrage, it possesses no "M1" main ammunition magazine.
  Ammunition entrance: Shaft entry, two automatic rifle cloches (GFM), 3 FM embrasures and a machine gun/47mm anti-tank gun (JM/AC47) embrasure.
  Personnel entrance: Shaft entry, one GFM cloche and one JM/AC47 embrasure.
  Block 1: one machine gun turret and GFM cloche.
  Block 2: one machine gun embrasure (JM), a JM/AC47 embrasure and two GFM cloches.
  Block 3: one observation cloche (VDP) and a GFM cloche.
  Block 4: one machine-gun turret, a machine gun cloche (JM) and a GM cloche.
  Block 5: one 75mm turret and a GFm cloche.
  Block 6: one 50mm mortar turret and a GFM cloche.
  Block 7: three 75mm gun embrasures, two GFM cloches and a grenade launcher cloche (LG).
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caption: Block 2, embrasures and the diamant ditch
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