Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Monument allemand
Flaucourt, Somme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Monument allemand (cad. ZH 53) : inscription par arrêté du 23 novembre 1999
- Protection dates
- 1999/11/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1914
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Flaucourt
- Département
- Somme
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.91228, 2.86713
- Mérimée reference
- PA80000017
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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryMaps Collection, State Library VictoriaDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1856 map "Dept. Des De La Somme." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le monument allemand de Flaucourt fut érigé pendant la guerre, entre octobre 1914 et fin juin 1916, pendant une période de stabilisation du front. La plupart de ces monuments commémoratifs ou funéraires ont disparu sous l'effet des bombardements intensifs de 1916 à 1918. Celui de Flaucourt est exceptionnel par sa rareté, la singularité et la sobriété de son architecture. Il se présente sous la forme d'un mur de briques locales, empilées avec une alternance de paneresses et de boutisses, et un décor en couteaux picards surmonté d'un fronton, avec en son centre une plaque recouverte de peinture et pourvue d'une inscription : Pour l'honneur des fils d'Allemagne tombés pour le Kaiser et le Reich.
English translation
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History
The German monument at Flaucourt was erected during the war, between October 1914 and the end of June 1916, during a period of stabilization of the front. Most of these commemorative or funerary monuments disappeared under the effect of intensive bombardment from 1916 to 1918. The one at Flaucourt is exceptional in its rarity, the singularity and sobriety of its architecture. It presents itself in the form of a wall of local bricks, stacked with an alternation of stretchers and headers, and decoration in Picardy headers topped by a pediment, with at its centre a plaque covered with paint and bearing an inscription: For the honour of the sons of Germany fallen for the Kaiser and the Reich.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.