Église Saint-Maclou · Photo: Prosopee · CC BY 3.014 historic monuments, more per resident than 98% of compared French towns
The Culture ministry lists 14 historic monuments in Bar-sur-Aube: 5 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 9 inscrit (the second level). The oldest date from prehistory. We have photos of 11 of them.
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Bar-sur-Aube in 11 photos
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Église Saint-PierreClassé
Prieuré (ancien)Classé
MaisonInscrit
Couvent des Ursulines (ancien)Inscrit
Hôtel (ancien)Inscrit+6See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
Bar-sur-Aube has the 3rd most monuments of 41 towns its size
Compared French towns of 4,600 to 4,700 residents, by historic monuments.
The median town of these has 2. 12 of the 41 have none.
Where Bar-sur-Aube’s monuments stand
Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.
Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.
Classé is the higher protection: any work on the building needs the State’s permission. Work on an inscrit building must be declared to the State in advance. Around both, building work in sight of the monument (usually within 500 m) needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
Points as the ministry gives them: a monument spread over several plots has one point.
5 classé monuments in Bar-sur-Aube
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. 3 of the 5 are protected in part only (a façade, a roof, a room). Each card opens the monument’s page.
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Classé9 inscrit monuments in Bar-sur-Aube
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
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InscritMost of Bar-sur-Aube’s monuments are houses and homes
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Houses & homes: 9 of 14 monuments (64%). 4 are religious buildings, 3 of them classé.
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once.
How old Bar-sur-Aube’s monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
5 of 14 dated monuments have parts from before 1500. The oldest dated: Oppidum, sur la colline Sainte-Germaine (Prehistory).
5 of Bar-sur-Aube’s monuments were protected in 1972
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
First protected, in 1840: Église Saint-Maclou and Église Saint-Pierre. That was France’s first list of monuments historiques, drawn up in Prosper Mérimée’s time as inspector. 5 were protected in 1972 alone. None has been added since 2011.
16% of homes in Bar-sur-Aube were built before 1919
Main homes by when they were finished, beside the median compared French town (the tick).
16% of its main homes were built before 1919; the median compared French town has 7.4%. More of them were finished between 1971 and 1990 than in any other period (31%).
INSEE, census 2023: main homes (résidences principales) only; second homes and empty homes aren’t dated.
19 people born in Bar-sur-Aube before 1900
Their lives on one line.
Everyone born in Bar-sur-Aube Birthplaces from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia.
Historic monuments in the towns around Bar-sur-Aube
| Town | Residents | Monuments | Classé | Protected area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bar-sur-Aube | 4,665 | 14 | 5 | — |
| Brienne-le-Château | 2,672 | 8 | 3 | — |
| Bar-sur-Seine | 2,858 | 6 | 2 | — |
Bar-sur-Aube in brief
The record in Bar-sur-Aube starts with Oppidum, sur la colline Sainte-Germaine, which dates from prehistory. All told, the list holds 14 historic monuments, 5 of them classé. For its size, it has more historic monuments than 98% of compared French towns. Its housing is old: 16% of homes date from before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Its classé monuments cluster together: 5 of them stand within 400 m of Église Saint-Maclou. Only 2 of the 41 towns nearest its size have more historic monuments. Most entries on the list, 64%, are houses and homes.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Monuments historiques. France protects buildings at two levels. Classé, the higher (about a third of the list), means any work needs the State’s permission; inscrit means work must be declared to the State in advance. The Culture ministry’s Mérimée base lists every protected building, and this page counts them.
- Partly protected. Many entries protect part of a building only (its façades and roofs, a staircase, a painted room). Each counts as one monument, like a fully protected one.
- Where a monument is counted. In the commune named on its protection, moved to today’s commune where communes have since merged. A monument listed for several communes counts in each.
- Sites patrimoniaux remarquables. Since 2016 France’s protected historic areas (the former secteurs sauvegardés, ZPPAUP and AVAP) share one name. Inside one, building work follows the area’s plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
- What isn’t here. Protected objects (furniture, organs, paintings), old buildings with no protection, UNESCO World Heritage listings and labels such as “Plus Beaux Villages de France” aren’t on this list, so this page doesn’t count them.
- No History Grade yet. Everything on this page is described, not graded: France’s History Grade isn’t built yet.
Questions about the history of Bar-sur-Aube
How many historic monuments are there in Bar-sur-Aube?
The Culture ministry lists 14 historic monuments in Bar-sur-Aube: 5 classé and 9 inscrit.
Which monuments in Bar-sur-Aube are classé?
5, among them Église Saint-Maclou, Église Saint-Pierre and Prieuré (ancien).
How old are the monuments of Bar-sur-Aube?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from prehistory.
When were monuments in Bar-sur-Aube first protected?
The first in 1840, the latest in 1983.
How old are the homes in Bar-sur-Aube?
16% of its main homes were built before 1919 (median compared French town: 7.4%).
France has no History Grade yet: this page describes, it doesn’t grade.
Sources: Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée base on POP (immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques), October 2026 · Ministère de la Culture, sites patrimoniaux remarquables, October 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (main homes by build period) · Wikidata and Wikipedia (people born here) · Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (photos of the monuments, each with its own credit and license) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.