Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fours à chaux
Benet, Vendée, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fours à chaux et tunnel (cad. AB 129) : inscription par arrêté du 30 novembre 1994
- Protection dates
- 1994/11/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- four à chaux
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1873
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Benet
- Département
- Vendée
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.37410, -0.58070
- Mérimée reference
- PA00132776
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 1825 map "V.1:1-5: I: Frankreich. DEP: 49. Der Beiden Sevres. 50. Der Vendee. 51. Der Nieder Charente" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Lien entre ces fours à chaux et l'exploitation des mines de Fay-Morceaux. Fours construits en 1873, modernisés après la guerre de 14-18 ; ont cessé de fonctionner en 1982.
English translation
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History
Connection between these lime kilns and the exploitation of the Fay-Morceaux mines. Kilns built in 1873, modernized after the First World War; ceased operation in 1982.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.