Castries Castle
The Castries Castle ( French Château de Castries ) dates from the 16th / 17th. Century, but is based on a medieval previous building. It is dominated by the town of Castries , which is located in the Hérault department and in the Montpellier catchment area . The castle is included in the list of historical monuments .
history
The influential Seigneur Dalmace, crusader and first owner of Castries, took part in the First Crusade , where he died in Palestine . The feud then Castries fell by testament to Guilhem VII. De Montpellier, Seigneur de Montpellier. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Castries was ravaged by the plague, famine and wars. At the end of the 14th century the village still had 50 inhabitants.
In 1495 the de La Croix family bought the barony of Castries. Before 1520, the castle was laid down and today's castle was built in its place, which from then on was the center of the village for over 500 years.
The following years of fragile peace and brutal wars, the castle survived unscathed until 1622, when it was burned down by the leader of the Huguenots , Henri II. De Rohan to protect the advancing troops of King Louis XIII. to offer no base during the siege of Montpellier.
The castle was rebuilt from 1645. Two ribbed vaults were integrated into the ground floor of the north wing of the building, which was destroyed in 1622 . The builder was Jean Bonnassier, who is mentioned on the construction site in 1663 and 1664. Three U-shaped wings were planned, but only two of them were realized. The facade was constructed according to the pattern customary in Montpellier. The ensemble is dominated by three towers, the roofs of which are arranged in two terraces . In 1670 the water from the Fontgrand spring was channeled through an aqueduct by Antoine and Jean Arman to irrigate the palace gardens . The current layout of the garden based on the classic pattern dates from 1930.
In 1966, the owner, Count René de La Croix de Castries, inherited the property from the Académie française . In September 2013 it was sold to the municipality of Castries.
The building now serves as a museum and can be visited.
Protected position
Facades and roofs of the palace have been included in the list of historical monuments since October 7, 1943, the aqueduct followed on September 8, 1949. The French garden , the park and the pond are since October 20, 1966, the outbuildings, the Gate building, the building called the “archive”, the greenhouse , the orangery and the gardener's house have been protected since July 23, 2003.
literature
- Gérard Denizeau: Châteaux . 2nd Edition. Larousse, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-03-583965-7 , p. 245.
- Claude Frégnac: Le Languedoc des châteaux . Hachette, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-01-002923-2 , pp. 58-67.
- Claude Frégnac (Ed.): Merveilles des châteaux de Provence . Hachette, Paris 1965, pp. 250-259.
- Bernhard and Ulrike Laule, Heinfried Wischermann: Art monuments in southern France. Provence, Cote d'Azur, Languedoc, Roussillon . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , Darmstadt 1989, pp. 396–397.
- Rolf Legler: Languedoc-Roussillon. From the Rhône to the Pyrenees . 5th edition. DuMont, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-7701-1151-6 , pp. 311-312.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Castle history on the castle website ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed November 11, 2014.
- ↑ a b Entry no.PA00103410 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Entry no. PA00103409 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′ 38 " N , 3 ° 59 ′ 13" E