German prisoners dug a pond at the Saint-Lô stud farm

The Saint-Lô stud farm is an important horse breeding center endowed by Napoleon I in 1806 in a former abbey. During the First World War, the grooms left to fight at the front while German prisoners were assigned to the digging of a pond. This infrastructure is part of the numerous upheavals experienced by the site over the centuries, which include requisitions of mares and destruction during the bombings of 1944.