Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Statue de l'amiral Bruat
Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Statue de l'amiral Bruat, à l'exception du socle : classement par arrêté du 7 août 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/08/07 : classé MH
- Type
- monument
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1857, 1864
- Architect or builder
- Bartholdi Frédéric-Auguste (sculpteur)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Champ-de-Mars
- Commune
- Colmar
- Département
- Haut-Rhin
- Region
- Grand Est
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.07558, 7.35276
- Mérimée reference
- PA00085407
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La maquette de la statue était l'oeuvre de Bartholdi, l'exécution de l'oeuvre fut confiée à la Maison Chasnot de paris, en employant le bronze de canons pris par Bruat au cours de ses campagnes coloniales. La statue reposait sur un socle dont le soubassement était orné de quatre personnages figurant les parties du monde, symbolisant la carrière du glorieux marin. Après avoir été renversée (ainsi que la statue du Général Rapp, qui lui faisait face à environ 150 m) par les Allemands lors de la dernière guerre, elle fut restaurée après la Libération, à l'exception le soubassement primitif, du fait de la disparition des statues et des ornements en pierre.
English translation
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History
The model of the statue was the work of Bartholdi; the execution of the work was entrusted to the Maison Chasnot of Paris, using bronze from cannons taken by Bruat during his colonial campaigns. The statue rested on a base whose substructure was decorated with four figures representing the parts of the world, symbolizing the career of the glorious sailor. After being overturned (as was the statue of General Rapp, which faced it at approximately 150 m) by the Germans during the last war, it was restored after the Liberation, with the exception of the original substructure, due to the disappearance of the stone statues and ornaments.
Nearby in the register
- Maison Fleischhauermaisonunder 1 mi
- Statue du Général Rappmonumentunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.