Baronville Castle

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Baronville Castle

Baronville is a castle in France , around 70 kilometers west of Paris . It is located about halfway between the communes of Béville-le-Comte and Oinville-sous-Auneau in the canton of Auneau (Arrondissement Chartres in the Eure-et-Loir department ) and is now owned by the von Rougé family . The building is since 20 December 1985 as a monument historique under monument protection .

history

The name of the castle is derived from the former Roman district Baronis Villa . In the Middle Ages one was castle built, nor that of the ditches and cellars have been preserved. The first castle was built between 1620 and 1623.

In 1738 the von Aligre family acquired the County of Baronville. Etienne François, the Marquis d'Aligre until 1798, laid out new gardens in the French style . He was on friendly terms with the farmers. This was evidenced by the fact that some of them bought Baronville during the revolutionary years and returned it to his son when he later returned from exile. Therefore the damage was insignificant. The son, Etienne V., showed himself to be grateful by gifting the farmers with farms and setting up the first social institutions in the county.

Coat of arms de Rougé

In 1867 the old castle was torn down and the current Baronville was built by Léon de Sanges within a year . The gardens were also given an English style . Then the eventful history of the castle began in the course of the coming wars. As early as 1870, Bavarian soldiers were quartered during the Franco-German War . From 1914 the castle housed a military hospital during the First World War . During the Second World War it served General Friedrich Paulus as headquarters for a short time. Subsequently, a German radio squad used the castle to maintain the connection between battlecruisers from Brest and Berlin .

In 1944 the children of an orphanage in Chartres were taken in, before the German air force occupied Baronville in June of that year and stationed an aircraft squadron that was later used in the Allied invasion of Normandy . In August of that year, the US armed forces took over the castle. During this time, it and its facilities were seriously affected. It was not until 1961 that the renovations of Baronville could be started after the current owner, Count Bertrand von Rougé , returned from the Algerian war.

Baronville Castle , which is a listed building , has been available for rent for weddings, seminars and other events since 1980 . In 2012 the renovation of the Carrousel de Baronville was organized by Count Aymeric de Rougé. He is now in charge of the entire domain and regularly opens it up for charitable occasions.

Web links

Commons : Baronville Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baronville Castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on November 2, 2011.
  2. ↑ Aymeric de Rougé and Alexis Robin: La Vallée royale de l'Eure vue du ciel . Ed. Beaufort, Paris, ISBN 978-2-490-47102-7 .
  3. ↑ A Facebook Invite to a French Château . In: The New Yorker . ( newyorker.com [accessed September 25, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Aymeric de Rougé and Alexis Robin: 25 Châteaux français d'exception . Ed. Beaufort, Paris, ISBN 978-2-490-47101-0 .
  5. ^ Center France: The fund pour l'école Saint-Joseph . In: www.lechorepublicain.fr . ( lechorepublicain.fr [accessed September 25, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Center France: Pour la rénovation de la Maison des familles . In: www.lechorepublicain.fr . ( lechorepublicain.fr [accessed September 25, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Aymeric de Rougé, comte et paysan . In: Horizons, journal agricole . ( horizons-journal.fr [accessed September 25, 2018]).

Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '52 "  N , 1 ° 43' 53"  E