Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne fabrique Rolland de plâtre et de chaux
Le Caire, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Moulin, four à plâtre et ensemble des bâtiments de l'ancienne fabrique (cad. A 602) : inscription par arrêté du 17 juin 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/06/17 : inscrit MH partiellement
- Type
- usine de chaux
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 19e siècle, 2e quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1896, 1930
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Le Caire
- Département
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.36845, 6.05903
- Mérimée reference
- PA04000002
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La fabrique du Caire contient un des rares moulins à plâtre à traction animale parvenus jusqu'à nous. Le processus de fabrication se déroule en trois phases : l'extraction de la pierre de gypse, la cuisson et le broyage. La fabrique du Caire comporte des fours de la fin du 19e siècle et un four datant de 1930.
English translation
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History
The Cairo factory contains one of the rare animal-powered plaster mills to have survived to the present day. The manufacturing process takes place in three phases: extraction of gypsum stone, cooking and grinding. The Cairo factory comprises late 19th-century kilns and a kiln dating from 1930.