Fort de Mutzig

The Fort de Mutzig, also known as Feste Kaiser Wilhelm II, is located near the town of Mutzig, in the Bas-Rhin department of France. It is one of the fortifications built by Germany at the end of the 19th century to defend Strasbourg.

It was the first new fortification built in what was then German territory after the invention of high explosives, which rendered earlier masonry fortifications obsolete.

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Fort de Mutzig ranks #2,042 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #148 of the 276 mapped in France. Founded 1893 — one of 221 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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