Ouvrage Col de la Buffère

Ouvrage Col de Buffere is a lesser work (petit ouvrage) of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one combat block at an altitude of 2393 m on the Col de la Buffère. Additional blocks were planned but not built or were left incomplete.

Description

 * See Fortified Sector of the Dauphiné for a broader discussion of the Dauphiné sector of the Alpine Line.

A small emergency exit exists at the southern end of the underground gallery, armed with a machine gun port.
 * Block 1 (entry): one Machine gun turret and two machine gun embrasures.
 * Block 2 (unbuilt): one heavy twin machine gun embrasure. The block was never built, and consists of a simple wood door in a concrete frame leading to the galleries within the cliffside.
 * Block 3 (uncompleted): one machine gun embrasure. The block was never built, and consists of a simple wood door in a concrete frame leading to the galleries within the cliffside.