Château de Lignières
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The Château de Lignières is a moated castle in Lignières-Sonneville in the Charente department in the south of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in France , about 20 kilometers southeast of the city of Cognac . Today it houses the mayor's office and the community hall.
history
The current castle dates from the beginning of the 17th century and was built on the site of a ruined medieval building. The builder was Charles Poussard († February 5, 1731), whose family ruled Lignières from 1475 to 1709. The builder was Jehan Cosset. According to Charles Poussard, the castle was owned by the Lords de Plas from 1709 to 1829, who acquired it on November 10, 1709 through the marriage of Charles Poussard's eldest daughter Marie Judith to François Joseph de Plas.
investment
The palace complex is located in the southwest of the town of Lignières, about 120 m south of the Route départementale 699 from Angoulême to Jonzac, which crosses the town from northeast to southwest . The elongated main wing, the Corps de Logis , is 25 m long and 9 m wide, has two floors and has four axes in both the east and west . It stretches from north-north-west to south-south-east and is covered by a raised Krüppelmansard hipped roof, in the steep lower part of which there are four narrow dwelling houses with flat arched gables on each side of the building . The living rooms were on the upper floor, the common rooms on the ground floor. In the attic there is enough space for several attic rooms that were used as staff rooms or storage rooms. The high lattice windows on the ground floor and first floor extend to the floor of the respective floor.
The central wing is flanked in the north and south by two pavilions with a square floor plan each about 11 × 11 m in length, which protrude on the park side in the east in front of the façade of the central building and whose steep mansard roofs tower over the roof of the central wing by almost two meters. Both pavilions are decorated below the roof edges with a multitude of corbels in the shape of medieval machiculis . On the west side of the northern pavilion is a short, two-storey, three-axis wing with a low upper storey, which seals off the courtyard from the village.
The interiors were completely redesigned in the 18th century, but two rooms on the upper floor still contain their original open fireplaces .
From 1977 the building was renovated. The facades and roofs have been classified as Monument historique in France's “Inventaire supplémentaire des monuments historiques” (ISMH) since 1977 , and the chimneys on the first floor have been registered as such since 1973.
The castle now houses the Mairie and the festival hall of the community and can be visited. Only the side wing on the north pavilion is used privately and is not open to the public.
Outdoor area
A small park, about 45 × 55 m in size, borders the east side of the castle. On the west side is the former castle courtyard, today the entrance area to the mayor's office and community hall. The castle, park and forecourt are surrounded by a wide moat that is crossed by a stone bridge in the northwest and southwest of the former castle courtyard. The moat draws its water from the Collinaud stream, which flows past east to west immediately to the north of the palace complex, which already feeds the moats of Le Breuil castle a few kilometers upstream and is dammed here immediately northwest of the palace to ensure the water level and amount of water required for the moat .
Extensive former stables and farm buildings are in the south; the majority of them are empty and are only used by the community on market and feast days. A partially roofed traditional washing area is located to the west behind the former stable buildings.
Two community tennis courts are located immediately south of the castle park and the moat there, and the local soccer field is located immediately west of the castle, all on the grounds of the former castle estate.
Coordinates: 45 ° 33 '28.6 " N , 0 ° 10' 57.2" W.
Footnotes
- ↑ Henri Poussard († 1473) married Amicie Boissel (Boissec), Dame de Lignières and daughter of the castle captain of Bouteville, Pierre Boissel / Boissec in 1445. His widow inherited her paternal inheritance from Lignières in 1743 to the Countess of Angoulême, Marguerite de Rohan, widow of Count Jean de Valois of Angoulême, and her son Charles de Valois (1459-1495) passed on to Henri Poussard's son Guy (also Guyot) in 1475 the sovereign jurisdiction of the Lignière lordship. ( http://jm.ouvrard.pagesperso-orange.fr/armor/fami/p/poussar_1.htm )
- ↑ http://jm.ouvrard.pagesperso-orange.fr/armor/fami/p/poussar_1.htm
- ↑ An "entry" relates to historical monuments of regional importance and is not the same as a "classification" which records historical monuments of national importance.
