Ducal Palace of Dijon
The Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy , and Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy ( French Le palais des ducs de Bourgogne ) is an ensemble of several historical buildings from the 14th, 15th and 18th century, in the center of Dijon in the French region of Burgundy are .
Construction of the ducal palace began in 1364 under the rule of Duke Philip the Bold , who, as the son of the Valois family, had been enfeoffed with the Duchy of Burgundy a year earlier and who founded the House of Burgundy within his Valois dynasty. Originally designed as a residential tower, the Tour de Bar in the inner courtyard got its name from the captivity of René I of Anjou , Duke of Bar, who was housed in this residential tower as a prisoner of the later Duke Philip the Good after the Battle of Bulgnéville from 1431 to 1437. The palace complex is dominated by the Tour Philip le Bon , which was built in the reign of Philip the Good and is 52 meters high.
The magnificent court life of the dukes, which Johan Huizinga described in the autumn of the Middle Ages , had its center in this place. The ducal court order, the Order of the Golden Fleece , had its seat in the later destroyed Sainte-Chapelle de Dijon , the chapel of the ducal palace.
After the death of Charles the Bold, the last Duke of Valois, and the marriage of his daughter Maria of Burgundy to the Habsburg Archduke Maximilian in 1477, the French king withdrew the fief of the Duchy of Burgundy, which from then on belonged to the French Domaine royal . From now on, the palace was temporarily used by the French kings.
In 1799, after the French Revolution, the Musée des Beaux-Arts was established in the building, which, in addition to paintings, exhibits in particular the tombs of the Valois dukes that were formerly in the Chartreuse de Champmol . The buildings were classified as Monument historique in 1862 and again on May 22, 1926 and thus placed under monument protection. Today the town hall, the tourist information office, an art college and the regional archive are also located in the building.
Coordinates: 47 ° 19 ′ 18 ″ N , 5 ° 2 ′ 30 ″ E
Web links
- Website of the Museum of Fine Arts (History Palace) (French)
- The Ducal Palace of Dijon as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse
- Ducal Palace of Dijon, Cour de Flore as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse
- Ducal Palace of Dijon, courtyard and Tour de Bar as a 3D model in the 3D warehouse by SketchUp
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://mba.dijon.fr/data/pdf/palais.pdf
- ↑ Ducal Palace of Dijon in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on December 30, 2012.