Fort Bloqué

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Fort Bloqué from the north
Plan of the fort

The Fort Bloqué (also called "Fort de Keragan") is a fortification on the territory of the municipality Ploemeur in the Morbihan department in France . It is located on a tidal island that is accessible on foot at low tide. It was built at the instigation of the governor of Brittany Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre .

history

After the English siege of Lorient (29 September to 10 October 1746), which as a base in competition with the British East India Company -standing French East India Company served and that should be turned off by it, and the plundering of the peninsula Quiberon in 1746 ordered the Duc de Penthièvre, Amiral de France and Governor of Brittany, started building some fortifications to protect Lorient in 1747. (These included the Fort de Penthièvre and Fort Cigogne .) Construction work on Fort Bloqué began in 1748 and was finished in 1758.

It served primarily to cover Port-Louis (Morbihan) and to secure the mouth of the Laïta .

The small facility was designed as an artillery plant without the components necessary for infantry defense (trenches, bastions or half-bastions to avoid blind spots, etc.). It has the shape of a rectangle shifted to right back pulled front , two flanks of stone-clad earth walls and a semicircular wall to the rear statements. Inside there is a central guard and accommodation building as well as two (one of them probably the powder store) other outbuildings. The fort was equipped with four cannons that were freely positioned on the wall.

During the Second World War , the facility was occupied by the German Wehrmacht and integrated into the Atlantic Wall , but nothing is known about its armament or function.

The construction of the departmental road D 152 in the 1950s opened up this remote area and led to the establishment of a new village opposite the fort, which was named "Le Fort Bloqué".

The fort was sold in 1967 and renovated by the new owner from 1970.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Histoire de Fort-Bloqué. Website of the Association pour l'Environnement et la Promotion du Fort Bloqué et des Villages Environnants (AEP).

literature

  • Lucien Penven: Le fort du Keragan dit Fort Bloqué. In: Les cahiers du pays de Plœmeur. December 2008, pp. 3–13.

Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 6 ″  N , 3 ° 30 ′ 19 ″  W.