Montrichard Castle
| Montrichard Castle | ||
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.jpg) West view of the castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | around 1020 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Place: | Montrichard | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 20 '36.5 " N , 1 ° 11' 10.6" E | |
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The ruins of Montrichard Castle are located in the French commune of Montrichard Val de Cher in the Loir-et-Cher department . It has been under monument protection as Monument historique since 1877 .
The ruins of the hilltop castle , a former Angevin fortress , lie with the remains of their mantle wall and several fortifications on the edge of a plateau above the Cher and the medieval city. It is the remainder of a castle from the 11th / 12th. Century, which Count Fulko Nerra had built with a wooden donjon around 1010. The background for the construction of a fortress was the strategic importance of this place. Here two important trade routes crossed, namely that from Bourges to Tours and that from Paris to Spain .
The present-day square stone donjon, structured by pillars, for which the fortress in Loches was the model, dates back to 1120 and was built by Hugues I d'Amboise . It consists of three floors: The ground floor served as a magazine , in the middle floor, the living quarters were, and the conclusion was the attic with a crenellated battlement . In the following centuries fortress walls, round towers , a drawbridge and the rooms intended for the lords of the castle were added. In 1589, King Henry IV of France had the top four meters of the walls removed in order to weaken the fortification of the complex should it fall into enemy hands.
Until the 15th century Montrichard belonged to the Lords of Amboise . In 1461 Louis XI bought , a frequent admirer of the miraculous image in the suburb of Nanteuil, Burg and Ort, but sold the property again. After changing hands several times, the fortress became uninhabitable in the 17th century.
The “Musées du Donjon” show a collection of archaeological finds from the region.
literature
- Wilfried Hansmann : The Loire Valley. Castles, churches and cities in the «Garden of France» . 2nd Edition. DuMont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-3555-5 , pp. 129-130 ( online ).
- Castles and cities of the Loire . Valoire-Estel, Florence 2006, ISBN 88-476-1863-0 , p. 79.
- Castles on the Loire . The green travel guide. Michelin Reise-Verlag, Landau-Mörlheim 1997, ISBN 2-06-711591-X , p. 243.
- The castles on the Loire . Valoire-Estel, Blois 2006, ISBN 2-909575-73-X , p. 71.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Burg Montrichard in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on June 3, 2009.