Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne redoute des Couplets
Equeurdreville-Hainneville, Manche, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Ancienne redoute, y compris son réduit et ses fossés (cad. BN 238) : inscription par arrêté du 24 mars 1994
- Protection dates
- 1994/03/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- redoute
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1812
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Equeurdreville-Hainneville
- Département
- Manche
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.65097, -1.66439
- Mérimée reference
- PA00132688
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1758 map "125 Cherbourg." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Témoignage de la défense de la place de Cherbourg au 19e siècle (construction de cinq redoutes).
English translation
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History
Testimony to the defence of the place of Cherbourg in the 19th century (construction of five redoutes).
Nearby in the register
- Porte de l'ancienne église abbatiale de Notre-Dame du Voeuporte1 mi
- Fort de Chavagnac, ouvrage constitutif de la rade de Cherbourgceinture de forts1 mi
- Digue de Querqueville, ouvrage constitutif de la rade de Cherbourgligne fortifiée1 mi
- Fort de l’Ouest de la digue du Largeceinture de forts2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.