Industrial heritage classified in Champagne-Ardennes

Workers' city classified as MH
08500 Revin

The city Paris-Campagne de Revin is a former working-class city of the Ardennes, built in the interwar period, classified as a historical monument. Its 24 houses with facades decorated with enamelled bricks illustrate the social architecture of the twentieth century.

Blast furnace
08160 Vendresse

The Vendresse blast furnace, built in the early 19th century in the Ardennes, is a major industrial testimony of the Ardennes metallurgy, now transformed into a tourist and educational site.

Wind turbine
10210 Pargues

The wind turbine of Pargues, built at the beginning of the twentieth century in the Aube, is a historic hydraulic system combining mill, water castle and washhouse, classified as a historical monument in 2011.

Forge
08330 Vrigne-aux-Bois

The Vrigne-aux-Bois forge, built at the beginning of the 19th century in the Ardennes, is a remarkable industrial complex with its parallel halls, its blast furnace and its workers' housing, witness to the Ardennes metallurgy under Jean-Nicolas Gendarme.

Blast furnace
08170 Haybes

Haybes' blast furnace, a metallurgical vestige of the early seventeenth century, is located in the Ardennes at Haybes. Its shale guellars, partially buried, testify to an ancient steel industry in the Moraypré forest.

Manufacture
08200 Sedan

The Cunin-Gridaine factory, a former 19th-century textile factory in Sedan (Ardennes), illustrates the golden age of the draping industry. Its stone facades and interior courtyards testify to its historic importance.

Royal Manufacture
08200 Sedan

The Royal Bed linen factory Le Dijonval, built in the 18th and 19th centuries in Sedan (Great East), is a former iconic textile industrial site, classified as a historical monument, on the edge of Meuse. Its "U" architecture and campanile make it a major witness to the French industrial heritage.