Kloebe tunnel
The Kloebe tunnel was an underground fortification from the First World War and was located about 300 meters north of Fort Vaux near Verdun in France.
It was actually a tunnel system that consisted of two U-shaped underground tunnels. These tunnels were built in the spring of 1916 by soldiers from the German Reserve Infantry Regiment 98. The facility was named after the battalion commander Major Kloebe .
The tunnels served as bullet-proof shelters for the soldiers of the Reserve Infantry Regiment 98 and the two battalion headquarters were also housed there. In the battles for Fort Vaux, the Kloebe tunnels later often served as an attack or reserve position.
literature
- Battles of the World War , Volume 14, Series of publications by the Reichsarchiv, 1920, p. 73.