Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte-prison (anciennement porte de Broérech)
Hennebont, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte-prison, avec les tours qui la flanquent (cad. AV 59) : classement par arrêté du 10 juin 1916
- Protection dates
- 1916/06/10 : classé MH
- Type
- porte de ville, prison
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Hennebont
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.80571, -3.27855
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091290
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1708 map "Le Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Porte appelée autrefois du Broërech, ouvrant les remparts de la ville close, flanquée de deux grosses tours. L'ouvrage a toute sa partie supérieure remaniée au-dessus des mâchicoulis.
English translation
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History
Door formerly called the Broërech, opening the ramparts of the enclosed town, flanked by two large towers. The work has its entire upper part reworked above the machicolations.
Nearby in the register
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Puits Ferrépuitsunder 1 mi
- Passerellepasserelleunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.