Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Canal de Lalinde (aqueduc du port de Lanquais)
Baneuil, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Aqueduc du port de Lanquais (cad. AK 18) : inscription par arrêté du 11 septembre 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/09/11 : inscrit MH partiellement
- Type
- canal
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1838
- Architect or builder
- Vauthier (ingénieur)
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Baneuil
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.83942, 0.67345
- Mérimée reference
- PA24000002
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1679 map "Petrocorii" (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Creusement d'un canal de dérivation de la Dordogne décidé en 1837 ; plans confiés à l'ingénieur Vauthier ; travaux adjugés à des entrepreneurs de Bordeaux. Chantier commencé en 1838, canal ouvert en 1844. Canal utilisé jusqu'à la seconde guerre mondiale malgré la concurrence du chemin de fer à partir de 1879. Propriété de l'Etat, mais concession à un syndicat intercommunal qui en assure l'exploitation et l'entretien.
English translation
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History
Excavation of a diversion canal of the Dordogne decided in 1837; plans entrusted to engineer Vauthier; works awarded to contractors from Bordeaux. Work site begun in 1838, canal opened in 1844. Canal used until the Second World War despite competition from the railway from 1879. State property, but concession to an intercommunal union which ensures its operation and maintenance.
Nearby in the register
- Canal de Lalinde (écluse de la Borie-Basse)canalunder 1 mi
- Château de Laroquechâteauunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteau1 mi
- église Saint-Étienneéglise1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.