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General Information

Completion: 1900
Status: dismantled (1920)

Project Type

Function / usage: Ferris wheel
Material: Steel structure

Location

Location: , , ,
Address: 76 avenue de Suffren
Part of:
Coordinates: 48° 51' 6.70" N    2° 17' 57.41" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

diameter 93 m
height 96 m

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Grande Roue de Paris was a 96-metre (315 ft) tall Ferris wheel built in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle world exhibition at Paris. Financing the "Grande Roue de Paris" happened by the creation of the "Paris Gigantic Wheel and Varieties Company" and selling the shares of this company.

It was the tallest wheel in the world at the time of its opening.

Théodore Vienne, the industrialist and founder of the Paris–Roubaix cycle race, was both owner and director of the Grande Roue de Paris.

It was disassembled between 1920 and 1922 and rag-and-bone merchants used the pods as huts to carry on their trade. This evolved, through second-hand shops, into the antique trade that is now to be found on the site and known as the Swiss Village.

The passenger cars were removed from the wheel and used as homes for French families when the region was devastated by World War I. Almost 90 years passed between its construction and a taller wheel, the 107.5-metre (353 ft) Cosmo Clock 21, being built in Japan.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Grande Roue de Paris" and modified on March 3, 2023 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20029070
  • Published on:
    10/07/2007
  • Last updated on:
    24/03/2023
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