Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine de l'ancien hôtel de la Trésorerie générale de Mézières
Rethel, Ardennes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Address
- 1 place Aristide-Briand
- Commune
- Rethel
- Département
- Ardennes
- Region
- Grand Est
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.51046, 4.36397
- Mérimée reference
- PA00078364
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1616 map "Carte du Pais de Champaigne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La fontaine du 17e siècle de l'ancien hôtel de la trésorerie générale de Mézières, sis place de la Préfecture, a été transférée et déposée dans les jardins de la sous-préfecture de Rethel. Elle a disparu lors des destructions de la deuxième guerre mondiale.
English translation
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History
The 17th century fountain from the former hôtel of the general treasury of Mézières, located in the Place de la Préfecture, was transferred and deposited in the gardens of the sub-prefecture of Rethel. It disappeared during the destructions of the Second World War.
Nearby in the register
- Hôtel de Villehôtel de villeunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Nicolaségliseunder 1 mi
- Château, parc et grange aux dîmeschâteau3 mi
- Égliseéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.