title: Ouvrage Col du Fort
text: # Ouvrage Col du Fort
  
  Ouvrage Col du Fort is a lesser work (petit ouvrage) of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one infantry block and one observation block at an elevation of 1,717 metres (5,633 ft). An additional block was planned but not built.
  
  ## Description
  
  * Block 1 (entry, not completed): two machine gun embrasures, never armed.
  * Block 2 (entry): one machine gun embrasure and one heavy twin machine gun embrasure.
  * Block 3 (observation): one observation cloche.
  * Block 4 (unbuilt): one heavy twin machine gun embrasure. Only an opening to the gallery exists, work was interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1940.
  
  The Granges-de-la-Brasque barracks is located nearby.
  
  