Guided tours of the forges de Baignes

Name: Visites commentées des forges de Baignes
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Site des forges de Baignes

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the forges de Baignes open their doors for a guided visit. Discover the engine room, the old office, the housing opened...

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the forges de Baignes open their doors for a guided visit. Discover the engine room, the old office, the workers housing, the collection of tools and models, the orangery and the Jean Bauquerey collection.

À propos du lieu

Site des forges de Baignes

Rue des Forges 70000 Baignes

Haute-Saône
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Architectural site late eighteenth century. The forge is mentioned for the first time at the beginning of the sixteenth century, but the Thirty Years' War comes to put a stop to this development. It is in the 18th century that the forge becomes important. The house of the master of forges dates from the very beginning of the century. Most of the buildings date from the great reconstruction program dating from the end of this century. The master blacksmith, Claude-François Rochet, then made work the architect bisontin Jean-Antoine Guyet, son of Jean-Pierre Guyet, contractor who worked for the architects bisontins Antoine Colombot and Alexandre Bertrand (himself operation architect of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux for the construction of the theatre of Besançon). It organizes a hemicycle square around the blast furnace, framed by two buildings in the shape of a quarter circle. Between these two buildings lies the «new street» lined with working-class dwellings. However, the forge quickly ran int