{"id":50293,"date":"2023-02-03T22:47:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50293"},"modified":"2025-02-03T00:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T23:08:31","slug":"a-labyrinthine-fortress-that-witnessed-a-brutal-battle-of-the-world-war-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/03\/a-labyrinthine-fortress-that-witnessed-a-brutal-battle-of-the-world-war-i\/","title":{"rendered":"A labyrinthine fortress that witnessed a brutal battle of the World War I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are abandoned places that seem to be permeated by the horror scenes that were seen in them, especially those related to wars.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/16\/the-curious-german-bunkers-named-after-animals-built-in-france-in-1918\/\">The curious German bunkers named after animals built in France in 1918<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/07\/mjosjofortet-a-strange-and-huge-fortress-built-in-1910-and-today-plunged-into-darkness\/\">Mj\u00f6sj\u00f6fortet: a strange and huge fortress built in 1910 and today plunged into darkness<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>An example of this is the place that we are going to see today,<strong> an old fortress from the First World War that is being swallowed by vegetation.<\/strong> The German channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Simply_Adventure\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simply Adventure<\/a> posted a video on Monday showing it inside and out, but giving almost no information about its location. The labels in the description only give a clue, with the place name <strong>Verdun, a French town near which a brutal battle between the French and Germans took place <\/strong>, killing more than 300,000 soldiers on each side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The fortress had armored artillery towers, one of which appears destroyed in the video.<\/strong> Most of the accesses to the fortification are walled up and its interior is certainly labyrinthine. <strong>There are some galleries that are in very good condition and the fortress hardly has any signs of vandalism <\/strong>(there is only one graffiti), but there are other galleries that are demolished or in very poor condition. Maybe that explains why it was sealed. <strong>The fortress seems to be surrounded by a fairly high moat.<\/strong> I'll just leave you with the video (it's in German but it has English subtitles, you can activate them in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83d\ude31 Panzerturm in 1. Weltkriegs Festung gefunden!\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FxjnObcfhrc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see here some captures of the video. <strong>Here we see the walls of the great moat that surrounds the fortress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52667488984_ab0585fc56_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The main drum of the fortress<\/strong>, dark in color and with wide openings at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52667634185_56fea94955_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A shattered armored tower.<\/strong> The remains of the cannon that occupied the tower are still there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52667488979_c1e3cb24cd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A smaller, also shattered, armored dome<\/strong>, seen from outside the fortress.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52666703717_f471f18419_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some shattered stairs inside the fortress.<\/strong> There are other stairs in better condition that lead down to a lower level, but the scouts did not go through them, probably for safety reasons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52667701733_d05f87ecdd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are abandoned places that seem to be permeated by the horror scenes that were seen in them, especially those related to wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16879],"tags":[18252,10575,15298],"class_list":["post-50293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-fortifications","tag-battle-of-verdun","tag-france","tag-world-war-i"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-23 14:18:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}