Port de l'Arsenal

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The Port de l'Arsenal with a view of the Place de la Bastille with the July column

The Port de l'Arsenal is a boat harbor in the 4th and 12th arrondissement of Paris , which is located between the Place de la Bastille and the Quai de la Rapée and connects the Canal Saint-Martin with the Seine .

History of origin

Port de l'Arsenal - Plan de Turgot (1739), detail of Port de l'Arsenal
The mouth of the Canal Tunnel under the Place de la Bastille, above the Bastille metro station
The Ècluse de l'Arsenal lock at the confluence with the Seine, over it the bridge of Métroline 5 , on the left the Quai de la Rapée station

The port takes its name from an arsenal (French: "arsenal") that was there between the 16th and 18th centuries. Charles V had the southern city wall repaired here in October 1356 - one month after the Battle of Poitiers - and a deep defensive trench dug. The work was only under Charles VI. ended in 1420. In the Plan de Turgot from 1739, a walled tree-lined path led past the city wall, past the Petit Arcenal , which led towards the Grand Arcenal . After the nearby Bastille was torn down on July 16, 1789, a vacant lot was created at this point, which remained until the Place de la Bastille was opened on June 27, 1792.

From 1806, the underground construction of the Canal Saint-Martin, which creates a water connection to the Bassin de la Villette, began here . In order to enable the southern connection with the Seine, the project for the arsenal basin in the moat of the former Bastille was approved on September 22, 1809. The harbor basin forms a small component of the Réseau des Canaux Parisienne (130 km long Parisian canal network). The Morland swing bridge, built in 1879 and 50 meters long, separates the boat harbor from the Seine. The port basin is spanned by the Passarelle Mornay footbridge, built in 1895 . The 585 meter long Boulevard Bourdon, which runs parallel to the harbor basin, opened on February 14, 1806, the Boulevard de la Bastille opposite on August 9, 1844.

In 1983 the port was rededicated by the city into a boat harbor for pleasure boats ( plaisance ), which can accommodate 177 pleasure boats (with a maximum length of 25 m). Of these, 65 spaces are provided for overnight reservations. Since 2008 the city has left port management to Fayolle Marine . The canal tours across the Canal Saint-Martin have started from the boat harbor since 1983.

Location and importance

The Port de l'Arsenal is the largest inner-city marina. It is 544 meters long and 70 meters wide in the middle, the water depth is 1.90 meters. It is 3 meters above the water level of the Seine, which is offset by the Ècluse de l'Arsenal lock . Near the port, the stops are Quai de la Rapée the metro line 5 and Bastille of Metro Line 1 . The immediately adjacent Arsenal station was closed on September 2, 1939 and did not reopen after the Second World War . The boulevards Bourdon and de la Bastille run parallel to the Port de l'Arsenal from the Seine to the Place de la Bastille .

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  N , 2 ° 22 ′ 3 ″  E

Web links

Commons : Port de l'Arsenal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Lillie Craik, Paris and the Historical Scenes , 1831, p. 17
  2. ↑ Danielle Chadych / Dominique Leborgne, Histoire de Paris Pour les Nuis , 2013, no page number
  3. ^ Clive Lamming: Métro insolite . 2nd Edition. Editions Parigramme, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-84096-190-1 , pp. 134 .