page_title: Fort de Loyasse
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Fort de Loyasse / History
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Carte postale postée le 20.08.1906, présentant le «&#160;quai "Arloing" et fort de Loyasse&#160;» en haut de la colline, en rive droite (côté sud) de la Saône à Lyon. La chapelle en bord de Saône est la chapelle de l'Observance&#160;; avec le début de la montée de l'Observance qui part par la gauche devant la chapelle, le quai Pierre Scize à gauche et le quai Chauveau à droite (le quai Arloing se termine plus à droite vers l'amont, seulement 20 m aval du pont Koenig que l'on ne voit pas&#160;: il y a erreur sur les noms de quais dans la légende de la carte postale). Au milieu de la partie gauche de la photo, l'éperon rocheux près de la rivière, presque à l'aplomb du fort de Loyasse, est la Pierre-Scise qui portait le château de Pierre-Scise.
context_page_description: Fort de Loyasse is a fort built between 1836 and 1840. It is currently in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon and is part of the first belt of forts protecting Lyon.
  The fort is a sister fort to Fort de Caluire and Fort Duchère and Fort Saint-Jean.
context_section_description: Built in 1836-1840 as a result of the July Revolution and resulting fears of an invasion of France by Austria, the fort of Loyasse was intended to protect the city from invaders from the east. This fort and the Fort de Vaise are located on the site of the former walled area of the Py.
  The invention in 1858 of rifled bores replaced Smooth-bore rifles, and extended the reach of projectiles to 2,500m. Then melinite replaced gunpowder in 1885, which increased the blast of explosions, and forts of the Loyasse generation become obsolete.
  The fort was used in World War I to house prisoners of war; during the Second World War it was occupied by the Germans. The fort was completely decommissioned by the military on October 15, 1947. Lyon acquired the land of the fort in 1949 at auction for 1,200,000 francs and used it as a roads department warehouse, a glacis, and allotment gardens still being cultivated today. The fort's underground galleries temporarily served as a mushroom farm.
  A barracks of the fort was demolished in the 1960s to expand the montée de l'Observance, a city street; the trenchwork of the fort allowed construction of a boulevard linking the new district of l'Observance to the Vaise neighborhood in 1961.
caption: The fort of Loyasse on a postcard at the beginning of the 20th century.
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