Arthies Castle

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Arthies Castle, view from the southwest

The Arthies Castle ( French Château d'Arthies ), also called Manoir des Tourelles or Château des Tourelles , is located in Arthies , a French commune in the Val-d'Oise department in the Île-de-France region . The building at the end of the town in the direction of Mantes-la-Ville was erected in the first half of the 15th century and has been on the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique since January 1948 .

history

The castle got its name from the Bois d'Arthies forest area , which was a royal hunting ground. Accordingly, the roots of the castle can also be found in a hunting lodge . The area belonged to a seigneurie owned by the Théméricourt family in the 14th and 15th centuries . Around 1430 she had a new building built on the site of a castle . The heiress of the family sold the property in 1490 to Bertin de Silly de La Roche-Guyon , maître d'hôtel of the French King Louis XI. Bertin had the facility rebuilt and expanded at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, essentially giving it its current appearance. The Silly family was inherited by the La Rochefoucauld family , whose property management was in the castle until the end of the Ancien Régimes .

In the 1950s and again in the 1980s, the owners, the White family, carried out extensive restoration work on the existing structure. The current owners, Corinne and Hugues Flochel, open their castle to groups of visitors and on the day of the open monument .

description

The buildings of the palace complex form an irregular polygon, which is surrounded on all sides by a curtain wall made of stone and brick ( French brique et pierre ) . Your masonry has a checkerboard pattern due to the different colored materials. On the courtyard side, the wall used to have a wooden battlement , which was protected on the outside by battlements . In 1829 part of the original curtain wall was laid down to make way for a road to be built. Before the changes under Bertin de Silly, the main entrance was in the north in a mighty, square gate tower , of which only a ruinous part remains today. It used to have about three times the area it is today.

Today's Logis consists of a four-story, tower-like building with a hipped roof . It is the southern part of what used to be a two-part residential building, the two parts of which were connected by a stair tower on the courtyard side, pentagonal at the bottom and octagonal at the top . The original northern part was replaced by a low wing in 1820. Parts of the southern core of the building - like the former gate tower - could still date to the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century. The rest of the building fabric, however, dates from the end of the 15th / early 16th century.

The access to the castle is now on the southwest corner. The portal has a basket arched gate passage and an adjacent hatch , which are flanked on both sides by round towers . A two-story building with an almost square floor plan breaks through the curtain wall between the portal and the lodging. The vault on its first floor indicates that the castle chapel used to be there .

Outside the walled castle area, in the southwest, there is a large, octagonal pigeon tower from the 16th century with a polygonal helmet and 1500 nesting holes inside. Its masonry repeats the checkerboard pattern of the curtain wall.

literature

  • Christian Corvisier: Arthies . In: Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (ed.): Le guide du patrimoine. Ile-de-France . Hachette, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-01-016811-9 , p. 113.
  • Sophie-Dorothée Delesalle (Ed.): Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-d'Oise . Volume 2. Flohic Éditions, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-056-6 , pp. 531-532.
  • Henri Soulange-Bodin: Le guide des châteaux d'Ile de France. La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris 1971, p. 14.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Arthies  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Château d'Arthies in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Christian Corvisier: Arthies. 1992, p. 113.
  3. ^ Sophie-Dorothée Delesalle (Ed.): Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-d'Oise . Volume 2, 1999, p. 531.
  4. ^ Henri Soulange-Bodin: Le guide des châteaux d'Ile de France. 1971, p. 14.
  5. ↑ a b c chateau-fort-manoir-chateau.eu , accessed on January 5, 2014.
  6. ^ Sophie-Dorothée Delesalle (Ed.): Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-d'Oise . Volume 2, 1999, p. 532.

Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '36.2 "  N , 1 ° 47' 30.1"  E