Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Station de pompage de V1, située le long du chemin départemental n° 133
Audincthun, Pas-de-Calais, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La station de pompage, avec son matériel de pompage, en totalité (cad. AV 48) : inscription par arrêté du 22 mars 2012
- Protection dates
- 2012/03/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- station de pompage
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1943
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune, propriété privée
- Address
- CD 133
- Commune
- Audincthun
- Département
- Pas-de-Calais
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 50.58450, 2.13015
- Mérimée reference
- PA62000133
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Pas-de-Calais." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
En 1943, les allemands commencent à édifier plusieurs sites de lancement de V1, dits sites lourds destinés à permettre le montage, la préparation et le tir des engins de type V1. Chaque site lourd nécessite d'être alimenté en eau très pure. La source proche du site d'Audincthun offrant cette qualité indispensable, une station de pompage est alors construite afin de renvoyer, par tuyauterie, l'eau vers le site de lancement. En 1944, des bombes détruiront la totalité du site lourd mais la station de pompage ne sera jamais endommagée. Elle servira à pourvoir en eau le village jusqu'en 1976. Ce bâtiment comprend deux pièces: un local technique et l'édifice abritant la pompe. L'ouvrage est d'un type rare et se distingue par l'excellente préservation de son système de pompage.
English translation
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History
In 1943, the Germans began to build several V1 launch sites, known as heavy sites intended to allow the assembly, preparation and firing of V1 type weapons. Each heavy site required to be supplied with very pure water. The spring near the Audincthun site offering this indispensable quality, a pumping station was then constructed in order to send, by piping, the water towards the launch site. In 1944, bombs would destroy the entire heavy site but the pumping station would never be damaged. It would serve to supply water to the village until 1976. This building comprises two rooms: a technical room and the building housing the pump. The work is of a rare type and is distinguished by the excellent preservation of its pumping system.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.