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Monument Historique
Adresse renseignée dans la base Mérimée :
80300 Ovillers-la-Boisselle - France
Code Insee de la commune : 80615
Somme [80] - Amiens - Picardie (Hauts-de-France)
Adresse approximative issue des coordonnées GPS (latitude et longitude) :
6 Route de la Grande Mine 80300 Ovillers-la-Boisselle
Eléments protégés :
Entonnoir de mines (cad. S 138) : classement par arrêté du 13 août 1998
Historique :
Il s'agit du cratère de mine le plus important de Picardie : il est le résultat de l'explosion de mines consécutive au travail de sape des lignes allemandes par les sapeurs de l'armée britannique le 1er juillet 1916, en prélude à l'offensive générale des armées alliées sur le front de la Somme. Ce lieu est l'objet d'un pèlerinage annuel très fréquenté et reçoit plusieurs milliers de visiteurs par an
Périodes de construction :
1er quart XXe siècle
Propriété privée
Ouvert ou fermé à la visite, location de salle, chambres d'hôtes ?
English: A Grave and a Mine Crater at La Boisselle, August 1917 image: A landscape scarred with mine craters on which weeds, flowers and grasses have begun to grow. A single white cross marking a grave stands in the centre of the composition with three sticks stuck upright in the ground close by.
English: Plan of the Lochnagar mine at La Boisselle, fired by the British at the start of the Battle of the Somme 1916
Español: Cráter creado por la explosión de la mina "Lochnagar" el 1 de julio de 1916, primer día de la batalla del Somme. Al fondo se ve el pueblo de Boisselle, que era uno de los objetivos de las tropas británicas.
Español: Cráteres provocados por impactos de artillería durante la batalla del Somme (1916). Fotografía tomada 100 años después, en el terreno adyacente al cráter de mina Lochnagar (Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Francia).
English: Lochnagar mine cross - The Lochnagar mine was exploded on 1 July 1916 near Ovillers-la-Boisselle at the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.
English: Lochnagar mine - The Lochnagar mine was exploded on 1 July 1916 near Ovillers-la-Boisselle at the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.
English: Inside a Small Mine Crater, La Boisselle image: A view looking down from the edge into a mine crater blasted into the white chalky soil. There is a deep blue sky above dotted with white and mauve clouds.
English: Lochnagar Mine Crater at La Boisselle, Somme, France in 1984. Pupils from Holyrood High School Edinburgh provide a sense of scale as they explore the ground. "La Boisselle, after being battered by us in our attack, was destroyed by enemy fire after we had taken it, and then cleared by our men who wished to use the roads. It offers no sight of any interest; but just outside it, between the old lines, there is a stretch of spur, useful for observation, for which both sides fought bitterly. For about 200 yards, the No Man's Land is a succession of pits in the chalk where mines have been sprung. (...) The lines cross this debated bit, and go across a small, ill-defined bulk of chalk, known as Chapes Spur, on the top of which there is a vast heap of dazzlingly white chalk, so bright that it is painful to look at. Beyond it is the pit of a mine, evenly and cleanly blown, thirty-five yards deep, and more than a hundred yards across, in the pure chalk of the upland, as white as cherry blossom. This is the finest, though not the biggest, mine in the battlefield. It was the work of many months, for the shafts by which it was approached began more than a quarter of a mile away. It was sprung on the 1st of July as a signal for the attack." -- J Masefield, The Old Front Line, 1917
English: IWM caption : Interior of a mine crater at La Boisselle.
English: IWM caption : Mr. Massey, Sir Joseph Ward and party on the lip of the mine crater at La Boisselle.
English: IWM caption : Mr Lloyd George and Lord Reading at the edge of the mine crater at La Boisselle.
Nederlands: Lochnagar Crater
Nederlands: Lochnagar Crater
English: Lochnagar crater in 2017.
Nederlands: Het kruis bij de Lochnagar Crater in Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Frankrijk
Nederlands: Lochnagar Crater in Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Frankrijk
Nederlands: Een kruis voor een in 1998 teruggevonden Britse soldaat bij de Lochnagar Crater in Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Frankrijk
Nederlands: Lochnagar Crater in Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Frankrijk
Nederlands: Resten Britse (dun) en Duitse prikkeldraad (dik) en een schrapnel bij de Lochnagar Crater in Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Frankrijk
English: Lochnagar mine cross crater - The Lochnagar mine was exploded on 1 July 1916 near Ovillers-la-Boisselle at the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.
English: Lochnagar mine entrance - The Lochnagar mine was exploded on 1 July 1916 near Ovillers-la-Boisselle at the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.
English: Lochnagar mine - The Lochnagar mine was exploded on 1 July 1916 near Ovillers-la-Boisselle at the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.
English: Lochnagar Crater
English: Lochnagar mine crater
English: Lochnagar mine crater
English: Lochnagar mine crater
English: Lochnagar mine - The Lochnagar mine was exploded on 1 July 1916 near Ovillers-la-Boisselle at the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.
Deutsch: Lochnagar-Krater
Nederlands: de krater bij La Boisselle, ten NW van Albert. 100 meter in doorsnede en 30 meter diep. Hier werd op 1 juli een mijn van 60.000 pond tot ontploffing gebracht foto door mij, G van den Bor, gemaakt in juli 2005. Publiek domein, en uitdrukkelijke toestemming voor gebruik op Wikipedia.
English: IWM caption : Mr. Massey, Sir Joseph Ward and party on the lip of the mine crater at La Boisselle.
English: IWM caption : "British troops cheering Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward; La Boisselle, 23rd October 1916"
English: Mines and the Bapaume Road, La Boisselle image: A view from the edge of a series of large mine craters blasted out of the chalky soil. The mines have formed circular hollows in the earth surrounded by a peaked ring of chalky soil.
Ovillers-la-Boisselle (Somme, France) Trou de mine "Lochnagar Crater" Camera location50° 00′ 54.47″ N, 2° 41′ 50.33″ E View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap 50.015130; 2.697315
Detonated at 07.28 hrs 1st July 1916, the Lochnagar mine consisted of 24 tons of explosive. It was one of several similar mines exploded by the British Army beneath German fortified positions at the begining of the Battle of the Somme in World War One. All the other craters were filled in after the war but Lochnagar Crater has been preserved as memorial to that terrible conflict. Photo ref: SNC12794
Français : Harry Fellows Photos 1915-1984
Nederlands: Lochnagar mijncrater
Nederlands: Lochnagar mijncrater
Irish painter, visual artist and artist
Fiche Mérimée : PA80000004
Dernière mise à jour de la fiche Monumentum : 2026-05-04
Consultez le programme des Journées du Patrimoine pour le Monument Historique Entonnoir de mines de La Boisselle situé à Ovillers-la-Boisselle en consultant le programme officiel des JEP 2026.