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Balancier hydraulique

Châteauvieux, Loir-et-Cher, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Le balancier hydraulique en totalité avec son équipement (plateaux, potence…), la prise d'eau pour en assurer le fonctionnement, la structure qui abrite et protège le balancier (cad. F 1252) : inscription par arrêté du 25 avril 2016
Protection dates
2016/04/25 : inscrit MH
Type
station de pompage
Main period of construction
19e siècle
Dates
1850
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Lieu-dit
Moulin-Foret
Commune
Châteauvieux
Département
Loir-et-Cher
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.23325, 1.38113
Mérimée reference
PA41000071

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1768 map "30 Loches." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Conçu au milieu du 19e siècle par la société Samain, à Blois, le balancier hydraulique de Châteauvieux permettait d'alimenter en eau potable, sans l'aide d'aucun moteur, le château de Gaston Andral, gendre du conventionnel Royer-Collard, situé 30 mètres plus haut. Unique dans la région, son mécanisme est particulièrement bien conservé.

English translation

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Designed in the mid-19th century by the Samain company, of Blois, the hydraulic ram at Châteauvieux made it possible to supply drinking water, without the aid of any motor, to the château of Gaston Andral, son-in-law of the conventionnel Royer-Collard, situated 30 metres higher up. Unique in the region, its mechanism is particularly well preserved.

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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