Fort Flémalle is one of the twelve forts around Liège founded for the defense of the Belgian city of Liège in the late nineteenth century on the initiative of the Belgian general Henri Alexis Brialmont in 1888.
Forts around Liège are two ring-shaped groups of forts built before and after the First World War around the Belgian city of Liège. This defensive structure consisting of grouped forts is called PFL (La Position fortifiée de Liège).
Fort Flémalle surrenders on August 16, 1914, a few minutes after Hollogne. With their surrender, the PFL falls permanently.
The fort was rearmed during the interwar period and allows visitors to discover its never fully healed wounds and its trauma from the enemy bombings of the 1940s. The peaks of the fortress show the visitor their forever changed view. The ventilation tower did not escape destruction, this time due to the enemy guns (including an 88mm!)
This is in short what the guides will make you discover during a visit of about 2 hours. Supplemented with a 3D reconstruction of the entire fort, armed,... A virtual visit that allows you to better understand what these wet walls carry as history... The visit of the fort is now supplemented with a completely renovated museum. The collection, the only one of its kind, exhibits Belgian material from the two world wars: weapons (Mitrailleuse Hotchkiss with DBT mortars), equipment (dentist, operating room, etc.), documents. But also more than a dozen uniforms from the First World War, and even more from the Second World War. Worth the effort!