Musée de l'Abri

Located 1 km behind the Maginot Line, the Abri was used during the war as barracks for the crews of the casemates, and contained around 240 beds. 28 rooms have been restored to their original state, or used as exhibition rooms. Around the Bunker de l'Abri, you can also discover a large collection of military equipment from 1939 to the present day, a model room, a room dedicated to the "Malgré-Nous" and a hall containing exclusively American or German equipment from 1939 to 1945: the staging evokes the battle of January 1945 in Hatten. German and American combatants clashed in and around the village from January 9 to 21, 1945, during Hitler?s Operation Nordwind. During this German offensive, Hatten and the neighboring village of Rittershoffen were at the heart of one of the largest armored battles in France, with both villages 85% destroyed and 83 civilian casualties in Hatten and 31 in Rittershoffen. Outside, on the Museum site, the Remembrance Wood is a place of remembrance dedicated to the civilian victims of the battle, with its 114 trees paying tribute to the 114 civilian victims of the 2 communes. Since 2021, a specially designed room has been displaying part of the collection of the former JOST Museum (DRACHENBRONN Air Base 901 Museum).

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