Fort des Brotteaux
| Fort des Brotteaux | ||
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| Creation time : | 1831 | |
| Castle type : | Part of Lyon's first city wall | |
| Conservation status: | Canceled in 1904 | |
| Place: | Lyon ( 6th arr. ) | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 46 '2.5 " N , 4 ° 51' 38" E | |
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The Fort des Brotteaux , which no longer exists today, was part of Lyon's first city walls. It was in the Les Brotteaux district of Lyon between the following streets:
- Rue des Émeraudes
- Cours Lafayette
- Avenue Thiers
- Rue Waldeck-Rousseau
history
This fort was built as the first part of Lyon's ramparts on the left bank of the Rhone at the intersection of the roads to Décines and Crémieu . It was built on an earth wall of 5 m and surrounded by a moat 30 m wide and 3 m deep.
It was designed in a trapezoidal shape: the smaller side (250 m) had a bastion in each of the two corners with cannons facing east. The entrance with a wooden bridge was on the west side (360 m).
Inside the facility, on another mound of earth (4 m) were the barracks for a garrison of 350 men, the powder tower and some storage facilities.
The Fort des Brotteaux was decommissioned by law (August 21, 1884). Long negotiations began between the city and the PLM , which wanted to build the Lyon-Brotteaux station a little further east of the fort. The construction (between 1904 and 1908) of this station finally made the historical fortifications disappear completely.
literature
- François Dallemagne: Les défenses de Lyon. Enceintes et fortifications. Éditions Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, Lyon 2006, ISBN 2-84147-177-2 , pp. 126–127 (Photo: Georges Fessy).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, Journal Le Rhône du mercredi 01 December 1886 (PDF, French), collections.bm-lyon.fr.
- ↑ patrimoine.rhonealpes.fr (French).