Bompré Castle

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Bompré Castle

The Bompré Castle is a country castle in the French commune Barberier in the Auvergne . From 1950 to 1963 it served the Swiss painter Ricco as a residence and studio . It is privately owned and cannot be viewed.

The Renaissance castle stands as a registered historic monument (since August 1989 French Monument historique inscrit ) under monument protection . Its vestibule and staircase have been separately classified as Monument historique since September 1994.

description

The logis of the castle is an elongated rectangular building with two floors, which are closed off by a pan-covered hipped roof. The very simple facade on the south side is determined by its segmented arched windows. At the southeast corner of the building is a large, round corner tower from the 15th century with a conical roof and hexagonal lantern . The palace chapel used to be located in its interior .

The large rooms of the Logis were rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century in order to adapt them to the needs of its residents at the time. The vestibule and staircase from the third quarter of the 16th century, however, have remained unchanged to this day and are in their original state. The coffered and barrel-vaulted ceiling of the staircase made of ornamented stone slabs is particularly remarkable. In addition, some chimneys from the Renaissance period have been preserved. One of them shows a painting inspired by Benozzo Gozzoli's frescoes in the chapel of Palazzo Medici Riccardi by the Swiss painter Ricco, who used Bompré Castle as a place of work and residence from 1950 to 1963.

history

The present castle goes back to a previous building from the 15th century, which was rebuilt in the 16th century in the style of the Renaissance in line with contemporary tastes. The building owner was the first officially guaranteed and mentioned in 1546 Seigneur von Bompré, Jehan de Menudel. In 1632 Gilbert Mareschal acquired the property together with the neighboring Persenate for 21,600  livres . After his death in 1659, his eldest son Claude inherited the property. His daughter Jeanne, from his second marriage to Marie Jacquinet, brought Bompré to the family of her husband, Nicholas Revangerou Revang (i) he, whom she married on January 25, 1692. Bompré remained in the possession of this family until the 19th century. It was followed as owners by the Demaistres (also de Maistre) and the Loizel family.

literature

  • René Germain (ed.): Châteaux, Fiefs, Mottes, Maisons fortes et Manoirs en Bourbonnais . Tisserand, Romagnat 2004, ISBN 2-84494-199-0 , p. 49.
  • Camille Grégoire: Le canton de Chantelle . L. Grégoire, Moulins 1909, pp. 93-97 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry of the castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ a b C. Grégoire: Le canton de Chantelle , p. 94.
  3. ↑ C. Grégoire: Le canton de Chantelle , p. 95.
  4. ↑ C. Grégoire: Le canton de Chantelle , p. 96.

Coordinates: 46 ° 14 ′ 6.2 "  N , 3 ° 15 ′ 14.4"  E