Built between 1937 and 1939, the fort overlooks the Rhine where it bends around the town of Full-Reuenthal, and was intended to prevent a crossing of the Rhine at the hydroelectric plant at Dogern.

It was a component of the Swiss Border Line of defenses.

It overlooks the Rhine and the hydroelectric station spanning the river at Dogern.

[1] It is part of the Border Line defenses built by Switzerland in the late 1930s, prior to a shift in Swiss priorities to the National Redoubt in the Alps.

[2] Fort Reuenthal is operated by the Swiss Military Museum (Schweizerisches Militärmuseum Full), whose display facility is located about .9 kilometres (0.56 mi) away in the direction of the Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant.