Heritage Place
La Coubre lighthouse site
Current La Coubre tower site on the erosion-prone northern side of the Gironde estuary.
Place Summary
- Place ID
- LUX-PLACE-000022
- Type
- heritage site
- Description
- Current La Coubre tower site on the erosion-prone northern side of the Gironde estuary.
- Aliases
- Pointe de la Coubre
- Coordinates
- 45.69694, -1.23389
- Precision
- reference-coordinate
- Confidence
- medium
- Status
- reviewed
- Review
- reviewed
Follow this lighthouse station through time
Each connection follows reviewed archive relations and evidence. Physical structure, station identity, and navigational function are kept distinct.
Heritage asset
The earlier masonry tower at this lighthouse station
See the evidence
- Reason code
- tower_replaced_by
- Identity layer
- Physical structure
- Evidence
- Accepted
- Path
- HERITAGE-REL-000137, HERITAGE-REL-000142, HERITAGE-REL-000143
- Identity distinction
- Physical structure replaced in 1905; the 1895 tower was lost to coastal collapse in 1907.
Heritage asset
The tower that later continued this station
See the evidence
- Reason code
- station_continues_through_structure
- Identity layer
- Physical structure
- Evidence
- Accepted
- Path
- HERITAGE-REL-000137, HERITAGE-REL-000142
- Identity distinction
- The 1905 reinforced-concrete tower is the current physical structure at this continuing station site.
Heritage Journey
Read the evidence-grounded journey through this station's rebuilding
See the evidence
- Reason code
- lighthouse_connected_journey
- Identity layer
- Heritage identity
- Evidence
- Accepted
- Path
- Journey membership
- Identity distinction
- Heritage Journey traces five structural generations while the station identity continues.
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