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Moulin de Drils

Dienne, Cantal, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Le moulin en totalité, y compris le mécanisme et le système hydraulique comprenant le bief d'amenée, la retenue, le canal de décharge et le canal de fuite (cad. AZ 23, 209, 210) : inscription par arrêté du 19 mai 2003
Protection dates
2003/05/19 : inscrit MH
Type
moulin
Main period of construction
1er quart 19e siècle
Dates
1807
Ownership
propriété de la commune, propriété privée
Commune
Dienne
Département
Cantal
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Coordinates
45.14889, 2.76729
Mérimée reference
PA15000020

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1780 map "14 Mauriac." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Moulin construit en 1807, conçu selon le principe de la roue horizontale à auget : une meule inférieure fixe posée sur un linteau, surmontée d'une autre meule mobile tournant sur elle, toutes deux traversées par un axe vertical animé par une roue horizontale à augets. Le moulin possède deux mécanismes de ce type dont ne subsistent que les éléments en pierre. Le système hydraulique avec bief, retenue maçonnée, canaux de décharge et de fuite, subsiste également.

English translation

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Mill built in 1807, designed according to the principle of the horizontal bucket wheel: a fixed lower millstone placed on a lintel, surmounted by another moveable millstone rotating on it, both traversed by a vertical axis driven by a horizontal bucket wheel. The mill has two mechanisms of this type of which only the stone elements remain. The hydraulic system with millrace, masonry reservoir, discharge and outlet channels, also survives.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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