Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont de Montvert
Le Pont-de-Montvert, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont de Montvert, en dos d'âne, avec la tour qui le flanque à son extrémité : inscription par arrêté du 8 décembre 1950
- Protection dates
- 1950/12/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété du département, propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Le Pont-de-Montvert
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.36308, 3.74350
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103896
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Pont du 17e siècle possédant, à son entrée, une tour carrée qui devait être utilisée comme bureau de péage, lors du passage des troupeaux de moutons transhumants puis au 19e de prison et tour de l'horloge
English translation
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History
Bridge of the 17th century possessing, at its entrance, a square tower which must have been used as a toll office, at the time of the passage of transhumant sheep flocks and in the 19th century as a prison and clock tower.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.