Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Moulin de Tru
La Chapelle-de-Brain, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Moulin (cad. E 517) : inscription par arrêté du 24 mai 1974
- Protection dates
- 1974/05/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- moulin à farine
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Tru
- Commune
- La Chapelle-de-Brain
- Département
- Ille-et-Vilaine
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.69899, -1.94992
- Mérimée reference
- PA00090520
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 1786 map "Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce moulin à vent, à farine, supposé de la première moitié du 19e siècle, est de type tour et construit en schiste. Il a été surélevé à l'occasion de l'installation des ailes Berton. Il a ensuite été doté d'un moteur à gaz pauvre avant sa cessation d'activité survenue en 1958.
English translation
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History
This windmill, for flour-milling, presumed to date from the first half of the 19th century, is of tower type and constructed of schist. It was raised when the Berton sails were installed. It was subsequently fitted with a gas engine before ceasing activity in 1958.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.