Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Hôtel de ville
Briey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades, toitures incluant l'ensemble des charpentes, cage d'escalier, anciens cachots voûtés avec le vantail de porte subsistant (cad. AA 224) : inscription par arrêté du 27 février 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/02/27 : inscrit MH partiellement
- Type
- hôtel de ville
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1789
- Architect or builder
- HENRY Jean-François (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville
- Commune
- Briey
- Département
- Meurthe-et-Moselle
- Region
- Grand Est
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.24811, 5.93700
- Mérimée reference
- PA54000001
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1682 map "Exactissima Lotharingia Tam Regis Gallorum quam Ducis Caroli." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Construit sur l'emplacement de l'ancien donjon du château, l'hôtel de ville se compose de deux corps de bâtiments : l'ancien auditoire de la prévôté et la maison de ville, bâtis avant 1751 ; le bailliage, élevé dès mai 1789 sur les plans de l'architecte briotin Jean-François Henry.
English translation
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History
Built on the site of the former keep of the castle, the town hall comprises two building blocks: the former courthouse of the provost and the town house, built before 1751; the bailiwick, raised from May 1789 after plans by the architect from Brioude Jean-François Henry.
Nearby in the register
- Beffroibeffroiunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Gengoultégliseunder 1 mi
- Cité Radieuseimmeubleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.