Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Moulin à vent des Bleuces
Concourson-sur-Layon, Maine-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Moulin à vent des Bleuces (cad. A 186) : inscription par arrêté du 12 décembre 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/12/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- moulin
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle (?), 1er quart 18e siècle, 19e siècle (?)
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Concourson-sur-Layon
- Département
- Maine-et-Loire
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.17575, -0.32967
- Mérimée reference
- PA00109060
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 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Moulin à farine de type cavier, installé au sud du pays de Doué-la-Fontaine, construit à la fin du 17e siècle ou au début du 18e siècle, il relevait du prieuré Saint-Hilaire de Concourson. Sur la masse polygonale s'élève le cône aigu d'un massereau en pierre de falun probablement surélevé au 19e siècle. La hucherolle et les ailes ont été refaites à neuf en 1978.
English translation
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History
Flour mill of cavier type, installed south of the region of Doué-la-Fontaine, built in the late 17th century or early 18th century, it was dependent on the priory of Saint-Hilaire of Concourson. On the polygonal mass rises the sharp cone of a massereau in falun stone probably heightened in the 19th century. The hucherolle and sails were completely remade in 1978.
Nearby in the register
- Motte féodale et donjon (restes)édifice fortifié2 mi
- Château d'Echuillychâteau3 mi
- Manoir de Châtelaisonmanoir3 mi
- Église Saint-Denis (ruines)église3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.