Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Télégraphe Chappe
Lévignac, Haute-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Tour de la forêt de Bouconne (cad. B 20) : inscription par arrêté du 3 septembre 1992
- Protection dates
- 1992/09/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- station de télégraphe
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1834
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Lévignac
- Département
- Haute-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.64883, 1.21374
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094691
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "38 Toulouse." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour construite en 1834, mesurant dix mètres de haut sur quatre de diamètre. Elle est un des rares vestiges de la ligne "Chappe" Toulouse-Bordeaux. Au rez-de-chaussée se trouvait l'habitation du stationnaire. Le mécanisme qui se trouvait sur la partie supérieure de l'édifice n'existe plus, mais pourrait être restitué.
English translation
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History
Tower built in 1834, measuring ten metres high by four metres diameter. It is one of the rare vestiges of the "Chappe" line Toulouse-Bordeaux. On the ground floor was found the dwelling of the stationary operator. The mechanism which was on the upper part of the edifice no longer exists, but could be restored.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.