Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour du Diable
Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour du Diable : inscription par arrêté du 6 novembre 1929
- Protection dates
- 1929/11/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 13e siècle, milieu 14e siècle, 1er quart 15e siècle
- Later work
- 1er quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1906
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue de la Tour du Diable
- Commune
- Mulhouse
- Département
- Haut-Rhin
- Region
- Grand Est
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.74348, 7.33067
- Mérimée reference
- PA00085548
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1675 map "Volume 2. 1 er. Planche. Carte Topographique Du Cours Du Rhin Depuis Basle Jusqua Mayence" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Vestige, dans la ville haute, de l'enceinte fortifiée établie au premier quart du 13e siècle, renforcée au milieu du 14e siècle et réédifiée au début du 15e siècle (voir l'ouverture de la façade nord) ; tour restaurée et surhaussée en 1906, tout comme la tour Nessel (non protégée).
English translation
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History
Vestige, in the upper town, of the fortified enclosure established in the first quarter of the 13th century, reinforced in the middle of the 14th century and rebuilt at the beginning of the 15th century (see the opening of the north façade); tower restored and raised in height in 1906, as was the Nessel tower (not protected).
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Saint-Jeanchapelleunder 1 mi
- Synagoguesynagogueunder 1 mi
- Eglise catholique Saint-Etienne de Mulhouseégliseunder 1 mi
- Cour des Chaînesmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.