Auzers Castle

Garden side of Auzers Castle

The Auzers Castle ( French Château d'Auzers ) is located in the French commune of the same name Auzers in the Cantal department of the Auvergne region .

The castle was classified as a monument historique on March 21, 1973 and thus placed under monument protection. It can be viewed as part of a guided tour of the palace.

description

Castle Auzers was in the 14th century amid the turmoil of the Hundred Years' War as a fortress built. In the middle of the 15th century the castle was looted and sacked . In the 16th century the castle was rebuilt in the old style and retained the medieval characteristics. It has a rectangular main building with two large corner towers on the garden side and a stair tower on the front.

Inside, the furnishings from different eras have been preserved. In the center there is a small salon on the ground floor. Then you get to the fireplace room, which is equipped with a huge fireplace. On the right side of the garden there is a small library with some rarities. On the right side of the entrance there is a bedroom with original furniture from the time of Napoleon .

In the basement there is a large dining room with a fireplace.

history

Auzers Castle, romantic engraving from 1840

The rule over the castle and community of Auzers goes back to the year 1364. Bernard of Marlat bequeathed the property to his daughter Blanche, who married Blandin Bompart in 1402. The inheritance then passed to her son Blandin Bompar. He was master of Auzers and, from 1469, also of Cussac . Blandin Bompar served the Count of Boulogne and later his successor Gilbert de Chabannes, for whom he supervised the construction of the castle in Madic . He married Helen Fontages, with whom he had a daughter, Alix, who married two brothers in turn. In 1470 she married Antoine de Douhet, legal scholar and chancellor of Jean, Count of Boulogne and Auvergne. They had ten children together. In a second marriage, Alix married the brother of her late husband, Jacques de Douhet. She had three more children with him. Gabriel de Douhet d'Auzers, lord of Auzers and royal governor in Auvergne, inherited the property . He rebuilt the castle in its current form.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schloss Auzers in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on June 3, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Auzers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Castle website (French, English)

Coordinates: 45 ° 15 ′ 52 "  N , 2 ° 27 ′ 42"  E