President Claude Poesy does not hide it: “The situation is critical. For a small association like ours that only lives by the entrances of visitors, it is dramatic. Since January, the work to close and secure the underground chapel and the work to reinforce video surveillance and the alarm have been completed for more than € 35,000. Our savings, achieved thanks to the good tourist attendance of 2019, have melted like snow in the sun, during these last four months ”Amifort is shaken, but it does not break. Thursday, May 13, the one who has been safeguarding for decades the largest structure of the Maginot Line, the Hackenberg, in Vecking, gathered its committee to try to find a way out of the crisis. As other Moselle tourist sites have been able to do, like the Amnéville Aquarium. The objective is clear: to reopen as soon as possible. With an iron will, the association therefore reopened its site this Saturday, May 16 under special conditions, and at the same time, launched an appeal … for donations.
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Pool until June 26
“Today, we need help to succeed in a new project, a new challenge. That of restoring the Tourtellier monorail network in the main ammunition store of the structure, “explains Claude Poesy. The Tourtellier monorail system was installed in the unloading halls of the ammunition entrances to allow transfers of ammunition boxes and other materials between trucks and wagons suitable for the work, by overhead traveling cranes. “Completely destroyed during the Second World War, during the German occupation, we wish to rehabilitate this monorail network to explain to future generations our recent history, by presenting the vestiges of this troubled period”, continues the enthusiast.
Since May 11, Amifort has therefore opened a kitty online , with the collaboration of the Dartagnans association, the first French crowdfunding platform that enables citizens to preserve cultural heritage through contributions. This kitty will be available until June 26. “Thanks to each of you, and with your financial contribution, even a modest one, we can successfully restore our historic heritage,” insists Claude Poesy. The first weeks are essential for this project, to create competition for a wider audience. How to support this campaign? By contributing online or by check, but also by talking about the campaign around you. Each donation will be thanked by a counterpart. “
Contacts: Amifort (tel. 03 82 82 30 08) and [email protected]
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