Hindenburg Line

The Hindenburg Line
The Hindenburg Line
	Siegfriedstellung
	Eastern France
Type	Fortification
Coordinates	49°30′N 02°50′E / 49.500°N 2.833°ECoordinates: 49°30′N 02°50′E / 49.500°N 2.833°E
Built	1917
Built by	Imperial German army Named after Paul von Hindenburg (Chief of the German General Staff, 1916–1919);
Construction; materials	concrete, steel, barbed wire
In use	1917–1918
Battles/wars	World War I Battle of Arras (1917); First Battle of Bullecourt; Battle of Lagnicourt; Second Battle of Bullecourt; Battle of Cambrai (1917); Battle of Cambrai (1918); Meuse-Argonne Offensive; Battle of St Quentin Canal;

The Hindenburg Line or Siegfried Position (German:

Hindenburg Line Media

Battle of the Somme, 1916
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg in 1914
German defensive positions from July to November 1918
Mine crater in the road through Athies, to impede the British
Orchard near Etreillers cut down during the German withdrawal
The Hindenburg Line at Bullecourt, 1920
Men of the Sherwood Foresters following up the Germans near Brie, March 1917
Flooding in Tincourt-Boucly, April 1917 (IWM Q 1985)
Replica Sopwith 1½ Strutter in 2006

Siegfriedstellungcode: de is deprecated ) was a system of forts built by the German Empire along the Western Front (World War I) during the winter of 1916-1917 to defend against France. After the war, the French built the similar but more elaborate Maginot Line to defend against Germany.