Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Réduit de Béniguet
Île-d'Houat, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Réduit (cad. AB 1 ) : inscription par arrêté du 30 octobre 2000
- Protection dates
- 2000/10/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- réduit
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1857
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Île-d'Houat
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.40138, -2.99167
- Mérimée reference
- PA56000030
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "Carte de Belle-Isle et les isles d'Houat et d'Hedic." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce bastion rectangulaire à terrasse crénelée modèle 1846 a été construit à partir de 1857. Le rocher est excavé pour que le réduit échappe aux tirs. Une batterie de circonstance lui est associée en 1940, par la Marine. Il en subsiste aujourd'hui les canons de 95 sur affûts.
English translation
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History
This rectangular bastion with crenellated terrace model 1846 was constructed from 1857. The rock is excavated so that the redoubt escapes gunfire. A temporary battery is associated with it in 1940, by the Navy. There subsist today 95mm guns on their carriages.
Nearby in the register
- Menhirmenhir1 mi
- Deux menhirs couchésmenhir1 mi
- Tumulustumulus1 mi
- Dolmen à galerie de Bod-en-Lann-Vras ou Bod-en-Stang-Vrasdolmen1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.