General Information
| Completion: | 1031 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Vaulted arch bridge |
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| Material: |
Masonry bridge |
| Function / usage: |
original use: Road bridge current use: Pedestrian bridge (footbridge) |
Location
| Location: |
Saint-Jean-de-Fos, Hérault (34), Occitanie, France Aniane, Hérault (34), Occitanie, France |
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| Crosses: |
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| Near: |
Saint-Jean-de-Fos Bridge
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| Coordinates: | 43° 42' 27" N 3° 33' 26" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 16 m | |
| total length | 65 m | |
| number of arches | 2 |
Materials
| arches |
stone
|
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Chronology
| 1932 | Taken out of service. |
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Pont du Diable on the Hérault River is one of many bridges in France with this name (it means Devil's bridge). It is located over a steep-sided gorge, about 4 km north-west of Aniane in the Hérault département.
Constructed by Benedictine monks in the first half of the 11th century, it provided a link between the abbey at Aniane and the Gellone Abbey at Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert. Though subsequently widened and raised several metres around 1770, it has retained its original shape. Vehicular traffic is now catered for by a newer bridge, from which splendid views may be had of the original bridge and an aqueduct that takes water to the vineyards of Saint-Jean-de-Fos.
The bridge has been listed by the French Ministry of Culture as a monument historique since 1935 and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the World Heritage Sites of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France.
There are two other bridges in Hérault known as "Pont du Diable", at Olargues and at Villemagne-l'Argentière.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Pont du Diable, Hérault" and modified on July 22, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Currently there is no information available about persons or companies having participated in this project.
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1996): Le guide du Patrimoine: Languedoc, Roussilon. Ministère de la Culture, Hachette, Paris (France), ISBN 9782012423336, pp. 504.
- (2001): Les plus beaux ponts de France. Bonneton, Paris (France), pp. 26.
- (1951): Le pont du Diable. Presented at: Congrès archéologique de France, 108ème session, 1951, Montpellier, pp. 181-185.
- (1984): Ponts de France. Presses Ponts et chaussées, Paris (France), pp. 68.
- (1988): Les ponts monuments historiques. Inventaire - description - histoire. Editions Brissaud, Poitiers (France), pp. 202-203.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20002606 - Published on:
16/01/2002 - Last updated on:
28/05/2021
