Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cote 108
Berry-au-Bac, Aisne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Le cote 108 avec ses abords (cf plan joint au décret) : classement par décret du 11 janvier 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/01/11 : classé MH
- Type
- champ de bataille
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1914
- Commune
- Berry-au-Bac
- Département
- Aisne
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.39911, 3.91076
- Mérimée reference
- PA00115527
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 1856 map "Dept. De L'Aisne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Poignant témoignage de la guerre de mines féroce qui opposa, en cette extrémité orientale du Chemin des Dames, les Français et les Allemands au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale. Quatre entonnoirs de mine, dont un particulièrement spectaculaire, révèlent encore aujourd'hui la violence de cette guerre de sape. Quelques vestiges des tranchées subsistent également.
English translation
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History
Poignant testimony to the ferocious mine warfare that opposed, at this eastern extremity of the Chemin des Dames, the French and the Germans during the First World War. Four mine craters, including one particularly spectacular, still reveal today the violence of this mine warfare. Some remains of the trenches also subsist.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseéglise2 mi
- Oppidum de Variscourtoppidum3 mi
- Oppidum de Variscourt (également sur commune de Variscourt)site archéologique3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.