Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Bac à traille
Champagne, Ardèche, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La pile du bac à traille (cad. domaine public fluvial, non cadastré) : inscription par arrêté du 23 mai 2006
- Protection dates
- 2006/05/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- aménagement de bac
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 14e siècle, 1er quart 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Champagne
- Département
- Ardèche
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.26917, 4.80842
- Mérimée reference
- PA07000010
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1708 map "La Bresse, Le Bugey..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
A la fin du 15e siècle, les bacs à traille succèdent aux bacs simples sur le Rhône. Le principe consiste à tendre un câble de chanvre, ou traille, d'une rive à l'autre, entre deux embarcadères, pour permettre une traversée sans dérive. La traille était reliée au bac par le traillon fixé par la grenouille, ou poulie. La pile du bac à traille de Champagne semble compter parmi les plus anciennes et représente l'un des derniers témoignages de l'important trafic qui s'effectuait sur le Rhône au 17e et 18e siècle, avant la concurrence des ponts au 19e.
English translation
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History
At the end of the 15th century, cable ferries succeed simple ferries on the Rhône. The principle consists in stretching a hemp cable, or cable, from one bank to the other, between two landing stages, to allow crossing without drift. The cable was linked to the ferry by the guide rope fixed by the pulley, or block. The pier of the cable ferry of Champagne seems to number among the oldest and represents one of the last testimonies of the important traffic which took place on the Rhône in the 17th and 18th centuries, before the competition of bridges in the 19th.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
- Égliseéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.