Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Village du Vieux Craonne
Craonne, Aisne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le village comprenant l'ancien village détruit en 1917, son cimetière et le plateau de Californie (cad. A 91 à 102 ; B 130 à 135, 185, 378) : inscription par arrêté du 17 mars 2003
- Protection dates
- 2003/03/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- village
- Ownership
- propriété privée, propriété de la commune, propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Craonne
- Département
- Aisne
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.00000, 3.00000
- Mérimée reference
- PA02000048
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailIGN 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 1695 map "La Generalite de Paris (northern sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Lieu de mémoire national suite aux offensives qui s'y sont tenues au printemps 1917, et aux mutineries dues aux mauvaises conditions des opérations militaires. En 1919, il ne reste rien du village de Craonne. Le site est resté en l'état, fossilisé par la forêt, un nouveau village ayant été bâti en contrebas.
English translation
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History
Place of national memory following the offensives held there in spring 1917, and the mutinies due to poor conditions of military operations. In 1919, nothing remains of the village of Craonne. The site has remained in its state, fossilised by the forest, a new village having been built lower down.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Croix de cimetièrecroix de cimetièreunder 1 mi
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.