Between 1920 and 1924 Fort Liezele was used as barracks for the field artillery. In 1930 plans to modernise the Antwerp forts were shelved, because of the opposition of the Antwerp members in Parliament. In 1929 the forts and redoubts of the Right Bank were transformed in order to be defended by machine-guns. The turrets were removed, and some rooms were protected against combat gases. The construction of the Albertkanaal and the KW-line, left Fort Liezele, situated to the south-west, out of the organized defence line. In the north the anti-tank ditch was dug.
During the campaign in May 1940 there was no fighting around the fort. The Belgian general staff however stayed at Fort Breendonk, while King Leopold III lived at Hof te Melis at Lippelo. During the Second World War the Germans occupied the fort and organized it as a depot. That's why a narrow gauge railway was constructed, remainders of which are still present in the fort.
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After the First World War the fort was used as barracks for the heavy field artillery. The soldiers of the levy 1921- 1922 in front of the fort. |