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Puits à balancier

Croix, Territoire de Belfort, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Les deux puits à balancier, en totalité (cad. domaine public, non cadastré, à proximité de la parcelle D 98) : inscription par arrêté du 5 juillet 2006
Protection dates
2006/07/05 : inscrit MH
Type
puits
Main period of construction
4e quart 18e siècle, 1er quart 19e siècle
Dates
1772
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
place des Puits
Commune
Croix
Département
Territoire de Belfort
Region
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Country
France
Coordinates
47.44426, 6.95518
Mérimée reference
PA90000008

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1760 map "145 Vesoul." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Les deux puits publics à balanciers dateraient de 1772. Ils se composent d'une margelle de plan carré, en pierre, continuée par un abreuvoir et un balancier en bois composé d'un poteau qui porte une autre pièce horizontale formant balancier pour hisser les seaux hors des puits. Ce mode de puisage était autrefois très répandu dans la région.

English translation

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The two public wells with seesaws would date to 1772. They consist of a square-plan wellhead in stone, continued by a watering trough and a wooden seesaw composed of a post that carries another horizontal piece forming a seesaw for hoisting buckets out of the wells. This method of drawing water was formerly very widespread in the region.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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