Chasselas

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Chasselas
Chasselas (France)
Chasselas
region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department Saône-et-Loire
Arrondissement Mâcon
Canton La Chapelle-de-Guinchay
Community association Mâconnais Beaujolais Agglomération
Coordinates 46 ° 17 '  N , 4 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 17 '  N , 4 ° 43'  E
height 286-485 m
surface 2.56 km 2
Residents 170 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 66 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 71570
INSEE code 71108

Château de Chasselas castle

Chasselas is a French commune in the region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté in Saône-et-Loire . It belongs to the canton of La Chapelle-de-Guinchay and the Arrondissement Mâcon .

geography

The small village with 170 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) is located in the Mâconnais about 14 kilometers southwest of Mâcon ; it is the furthest village in the Vallée de l'Arlois , whose headwaters are at a good 400 meters.

In a southerly direction, the place offers an impressive view of the Bresse plain , Mont Blanc and the mountains of the Monts du Lyonnais .

history

Remains, which can mainly be seen in the forest area between Chasselas and the neighboring municipality of Vergisson , testify that Chasselas was a relay on the Roman road from Lutetia to Lugdunum in Gallo-Roman times .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008
Residents 122 129 138 140 171 164 161

Viticulture

Today it is almost certain that Chasselas is the namesake of the grape variety of the same name . Chasselas is in France and both the französischsprachigen- as well as in German-speaking Switzerland the only common term for the grape Chasselas . In the Swiss canton of Valais it is called Fendant .

The Vicomte d'Auban , a French diplomat, is said to have brought the Chasselas grape from the Turkish Constantinople to Burgundy in 1523 . In the village of Chasselas, the Gutedel is said to have been grown for the first time in France.

Chasselas is one of the seven parishes (the other six are: Chânes , Davayé , Leynes , Prissé , Saint-Vérand and Solutré-Pouilly ) that give birth to the Crus Classés Saint-Véran .

Attractions

  • Romanesque church from the 12th century. It is unusual that the bell tower with a square floor plan - similar to the monastery church of Cluny - was grafted onto the roof in the middle. The four corners of the tower are decorated with wolf heads.
  • Intact houses from the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Residential buildings and courtyard of the castle

The fortified castle Château de Chasselas (since 1979 under monument protection ) to the 14th century and stands on the edge of a small hill in the middle of the vineyards. The ramparts form a large rectangular courtyard. A tower with a circular floor plan rises up at three corners. The three towers (originally there were four) have eye-catching pointed conical roofs covered with glazed tiles. The extension in the east dates from the 16th, the residential building in the south from the 18th century.

In the early 13th century, the von Chasselas family took control of the lands. From 1485 to 1591 the castle belonged to the Du Roux family , the last heiress Judith du Roux , mistress of Chasselas and Pouilly, first married the Huguenot Lyonnet Challes , who was beheaded for banditry in Trévoux , and then Philibert de Bellecombe , lord of Vinzelles . In 1629 Judith's husband Philibert and her son Jacques de Bellecombe died of the plague . In 1654 the heir Jacques de Bellecombe was murdered. In 1706 the Bellecombe family sold the property and the poorly preserved castle to Thomas Paissaud , Mâcon's tax collector . After the latter went bankrupt, the castle fell to Laurent Fayard , who - also in debt - sold it to Laurent de La Fond de La Rolle in 1756 . When this got into financial difficulties, the creditor Étienne Cellard d'Estours took over the estate - the coat of arms of this gentleman consists of three towers. His son could not prevent the castle from being looted and a tower destroyed in the run-up to the French Revolution in March 1789.

In 1971 Mr. Reme and his wife, née Cuverville, took over the castle. The two carried out the extensive restoration of the building; its oriflame is immortalized on one of the towers. Today the castle and the attached vineyards with a vineyard area of ​​eight hectares are used by the Chasselas agricultural cooperative . The association also has a wine cellar and its products can be tasted all year round.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Fénelon: Vocabulaire de geographie agraire . Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de Tours, 2007.
  2. ↑ Entry no. PA00113204 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ Château de Chasselas in the French-language wikipedia
  4. ^ Françoise Vignier: Bourgogne - Nivernais - Côte-d'Or, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, Yonne , pp. 93f. Berger-Levrault, Strasbourg, 1980.

Web links

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