Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Rotonde ferroviaire
Longueau, Somme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La rotonde (cad. AM 18) : inscription par arrêté du 28 mars 2003
- Protection dates
- 2003/03/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- remise ferroviaire
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1946
- Architect or builder
- Lafaille Bernard (ingénieur)
- Ownership
- propriété d'un établissement public de l'État
- Commune
- Longueau
- Département
- Somme
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.87221, 2.34825
- Mérimée reference
- PA80000036
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La rotonde n°1 est l'une des quatre dernières rotondes encore en fonction, créées dans l'entre-deux-guerres par l'ingénieur Bernard Lafaille. Structure en béton armé. Contrairement aux trois autres, celle-ci est la seule à avoir conservé son état primitif.
English translation
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History
Roundhouse no. 1 is one of the four last roundhouses still in operation, created in the interwar period by engineer Bernard Lafaille. Reinforced concrete structure. Unlike the three others, this one is the only one to have retained its original state.
Nearby in the register
- Cité-jardin dite du Château Tourtiercité jardinunder 1 mi
- Gisement de Saint-Acheulsite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- Gisement préhistoriquesite archéologique1 mi
- Église Saint-Acheuléglise1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.