Ouvrage Les Sarts
Ouvrage Les Sarts is a petit ouvrage of the Maginot Line, built as part of the "New Fronts" program to address shortcomings in the Line's coverage of the border with Belgium.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Église Saint-André de Mairieux and Église Saint-Nicolas de Bettignies.
Église Saint-André de Mairieux
Church
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
Église Saint-André de Mairieux is a church, which is situated 1½ km east of Ouvrage Les Sarts.
Église Saint-Nicolas de Bettignies
Church
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
Église Saint-Nicolas de Bettignies is a church, which is situated 1½ km north of Ouvrage Les Sarts.
Ouvrage Bersillies
Fort
Ouvrage Bersillies is a petit ouvrage of the Maginot Line, built as part of the "New Fronts" program to address shortcomings in the Line's coverage of the border with Belgium. Ouvrage Bersillies is situated 2½ km east of Ouvrage Les Sarts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Feignies and Neuf-Mesnil.
Feignies
Village
Photo: Budotradan, Public domain.
Feignies is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Feignies is twinned with the English village of Keyworth. Feignies is situated 5 km southwest of Ouvrage Les Sarts.
Neuf-Mesnil
Village
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
Neuf-Mesnil is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Neuf-Mesnil is situated 7 km southwest of Ouvrage Les Sarts.
Hautmont
Town
Photo: Chatsam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hautmont is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is 5 km southwest of the centre of Maubeuge, and has 14,500 residents. On 3 August 2008 a narrow but strong F4 tornado swept through the town, as well as Maubeuge, Neuf-Mesnil and Boussières-sur-Sambre damaging hundreds of buildings, forty of which collapsed. Hautmont is situated 8 km southwest of Ouvrage Les Sarts.
Ouvrage Les Sarts
- Type: Fort
- Categories: brownfield land, historic site, military installation, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Mairieux, Arrondissement of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, North, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
50.31874° or 50° 19′ 8″ northLongitude
3.97271° or 3° 58′ 22″ eastInception
1878Open location code
9F258X9F+F3OpenStreetMap ID
way 764658358OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fortOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=brownfieldOpenStreetMap feature
military=fortWikidata ID
Q3358764
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In Other Languages
“Ouvrage Les Sarts” goes by many names.
- French: “ouvrage des Sarts”
- French: “Ouvrage des Sarts”
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