Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour de Colombine
Molèdes, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour de Colombine, avec sa motte, son fossé et ses vestiges archéologiques (cad. D 1082, 1083) : inscription par arrêté du 9 juin 1992
- Protection dates
- 1992/06/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique, édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Molèdes
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.26047, 3.04967
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093748
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 1753 map "Marche, Limosin, Auvergne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tour de Colombine, de la fin du 12e ou du début du 13e siècle, appartient à la famille des tours seigneuriales carrées dont seuls quelques exemplaires bien conservés subsistent en Auvergne.
English translation
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History
The tower of Colombine, from the late 12th or early 13th century, belongs to the family of square seigneurial towers of which only a few well-preserved examples remain in Auvergne.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Légerégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Julien-de-Chanetéglise2 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise3 mi
- Église Saint-Capraiséglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.