Porte du Faubourg Saint-Jean

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Porte du Faubourg Saint-Jean in Moncontour

The Porte du Faubourg Saint-Jean (also known as Poterne Saint-Jean ) in Moncontour , a French commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in the Bretagne region , was built in the 14th / 15th centuries. Century erected. The gate of granite masonry was in 1926 as a monument historique in the list of monuments in France added.

The small exit gate (French: poterne ) is one of the few remains of the former city ​​fortifications that were built during the War of the Breton Succession . The passage of the gate has a barrel vault and above it was a guardroom of the defenders.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor . tape 2 . Flohic Editions, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , pp. 737 .

Web links

Commons : Porte du Faubourg Saint-Jean  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Porte du Faubourg Saint-Jean (Moncontour) in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 38.7 "  N , 2 ° 37 ′ 56.2"  W.