page_title: Ouvrage Molvange
section_title: Casemates and shelters
hierarchical_section_title: Ouvrage Molvange / Description / Casemates and shelters
caption_attribution_description: Bloc entrée de l'abri du Petersberg (Ligne Maginot)
context_page_description: Ouvrage Molvange is a large work, or gros ouvrage of the Maginot Line. The fortification complex faces the France-Luxembourg border from a height near Entrange in the Moselle département. The complex, armed and occupied in 1935, is located on the heights of Entrange, at an altitude of about 400 meters. Molvange is flanked by the even larger Ouvrage Rochonvillers to the west and smaller petit ouvrage Immerhof to the east, part of the Fortified Sector of Thionville. Molvange was not involved in significant combat during World War II, but due to its size it was repaired and retained in service after the war. During the Cold War Molvange's underground barracks and former ammunition magazine became a hardened military command center.
context_section_description: The Abri du Petersberg is nearby in the direction of Rochonvillers 49°24′39.44″N 06°04′58.03″E, just to the west of Block 8. The infantry shelter (or abri) was armed with one mortar cloche and one GFM cloche. The Casemate d'Entrange is located at the bottom of the slope to the east of Block 1 49°25′06.97″N 06°05′59.74″E.  The casemate was armed with one mortar cloche and one GFM cloche.
  Several  other casemates and infantry shelters are located to the east of Molvange, including
  Casemate du Bois-de-Kanfen Ouest: Single block with one JM/AC37 embrasure, one JM embrasure, and one GFM cloche.
  Casemate du Bois-de-Kanfen Est: Single block with one JM/AC37 embrasure, one JM embrasure, and one GFM cloche.
  Abri du Bois-de-Kanfen: Single surface shelter for two infantry sections, with  two GFM cloches.
  Abri du Zeiterholz: Shelter for two infantry sections, two GFM cloches. The abri has been restored and may be visited.
  None of these are connected to the ouvrage or to each other. All were built by CORF
caption: Abri du Petersberg (caverne)
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