Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fort de la Motte-Giron
Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le fort en totalité, y compris les batteries annexes (cad. DZ 131) : inscription par arrêté du 5 mai 2006
- Protection dates
- 2006/05/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fort
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1875
- Architect or builder
- Séré de Rivières Raymond-Adolphe, général (ingénieur)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Dijon
- Département
- Côte-d'Or
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.31485, 4.98429
- Mérimée reference
- PA21000034
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 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Construit de 1875 à 1876, ce fort servait de base arrière permettant de couvrir les autres forts. Il abrite les troupes durant le conflit de 14-18, puis des prisonniers.
English translation
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History
Built from 1875 to 1876, this fort served as a rear base allowing the covering of the other forts. It housed troops during the conflict of 1914-1918, then prisoners.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Moncleychâteauunder 1 mi
- Rucher de la Combe à la Serpentédifice agricole1 mi
- Ancienne chartreuse de Champmol, actuellement centre psychothérapique de Dijonétablissement conventuel2 mi
- Château des Ducs de Bourgogne (ancien)château2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.