Ammunition depot Ressaincourt

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Resaincourt siding
Route length: 3.5 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
   
 from Château-Salins
   
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Secourt - Solgne
   
 0.0 to Metz
   
 3.3 Ammunition depot Ressaincourt
   
 3.5 End of the route
   
 without route
   
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22.1
End of the route
   
 Pompey – Nomeny railway line to Pompey

The ammunition depot Ressaincourt ( French Dépot de munitions de Ressaincourt ) was a military facility in the French department of Moselle near the border with the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle in the municipality of Saint-Jure . The 55 hectare area, which is completely surrounded by forest, was connected to the Metz – Château-Salins railway at Secourt – Solgne station by a three and a half kilometer siding . Originally, the route was intended for the connection to the Pompey – Nomeny railway line , but since this section of the line had not been connected with the border shift as a result of the Franco-German War , it was converted to the rail connection of the camp. Owners are the French armed forces ; it is administered by the 9th Repair Regiment.

The Depot Ressaincourt was closed on 31 July 1993; More than 8,800 square meters of building space were thus vacant. The area was secured by a fence and prohibition signs, but very quickly after the evacuation, vandalism could be detected on the front huts at the entrance.

In March 2002, the site was reopened in its old function because almost 500 ammunition bodies with mustard gas had been found nearby . Mustard gas is considered a weapon of mass destruction that must be disposed of in accordance with international agreements on the storage and destruction of chemical weapons . The defused weapons are then brought to the Suippes camp (Marne).

The place gained sad notoriety through a dead person at a raver party in mid-July 2001. The location was considered the perfect place in the scene : It was huge, hidden in the middle of the forest and had many halls and other unused buildings. Two more deaths occurred in April 2007 when mine clearance workers were killed while defusing a bomb. Numerous mines, ammunition and weapons are still stored around on the former battlefields. Between 2004 and 2007, between 11 and 15 dangerous objects were defused each year. The area is partly heavily contaminated, the groundwater partly contaminated with arsenic .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Site of the Public Relations of the French Senate
  2. ↑ a b Inventaire des déchets de guerre du 1st janvier 2004 au 1st November 2007 Nord-Pas de Calais / Picardie / Ile-de-France / Champagne Ardenne / Lorraine (PDF; 1.3 MB) of November 27, 2007. p. 25 in the online document with map on p. 29
  3. ↑ Robin des Bois, Association de protection de l'Homme et de l'environnement

Coordinates: 48 ° 56 ′ 9 ″  N , 6 ° 15 ′ 18 ″  E