Cormatin Castle

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The Cormatin Castle is a castle in the commune of Cormatin in the Saône-et-Loire of the french region Bourgogne Franche-Comté . It is located on an island in the Grosne River .

Some architectural details are still preserved from the time it was built in the 17th century. The castle was classified as a monument historique as early as 1862 and thus placed under monument protection. It can be viewed as part of a guided tour of the palace and has around 70,000 visitors annually.

history

Cormatin Castle was built from 1605 by Antoine du Blé d'Huxelles, a petty nobleman who had become wealthy as a military leader in the Huguenot Wars and was appointed military governor of Chalon-sur-Saône . The castle was built in the Renaissance style on the foundations of a previous medieval building from the 13th century, with certain military-architectural features, such as corner towers and loopholes , as an expression of the new position of the builder. Antoine's son Jacques du Blé completed the interior work in 1625.

In the course of its history, the castle has received several high-ranking guests: statesmen like Ludwig XIII. , Richelieu and François Mitterrand visited the facility and stayed overnight.

architecture

The palace building used to have three residential wings flanked by corner pavilions , which framed a courtyard . However, after the south wing collapsed in 1815, it was not rebuilt, so that today Cormatin presents itself as a two-wing complex that stands on a square castle island and is surrounded by a large moat . Their interior design is extremely rare and shows the connection between the client and the French royal court. The wealth and pomp of the ensemble reflects the French art of the 1630s, which in Cormatin - in contrast to Paris - survived the centuries unscathed.

The partially dilapidated castle was acquired and restored by three private individuals in 1980 . Today it presents itself with a small utility and a large formal garden , with a maze and a restored interior.

literature

  • Thorsten Droste: Burgundy. Monasteries, castles, historic cities and the culture of viticulture in the heart of France . 2nd edition: DuMont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-4166-0 , pp. 134-135 ( online ).
  • Henri-Stéphane Gulczynski: La construction du château de Cormatin. Nouvelles approches sur l'histoire des travaux, à propos de documents inédits relatifs à Guillaume Tabourot . In: Société Française d'Archéologie: Bulletin monumental . Volume 154. Self-published, Paris [a. a.] 1996, ISSN  0007-473X , pp. 25-38.
  • Bernhard and Ulrike Laule, Heinfried Wischermann: Art monuments in Burgundy . Knowledge Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1991, p. 386.
  • Société française de promotion artistique: Cormatin . Beaux arts, Paris 1994 ( Connaissance des Arts . Special issue no. 58).
  • Bourgogne . Michelin, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-06-713899-5 , pp. 229-230 ( online ).
  • Découvrez nos plus beaux châteaux . Michelin, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-06-714971-7 , pp. 124-126 ( online ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Castle Cormatin in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on January 31, 2011.
  2. ↑ Pascale Lefort-Jacquemin (ed.): Bourgogne . 12th edition. Nouvelles éditions de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-7469-2436-9 , p. 13 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Bourgogne , p. 229.

Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '35.3 "  N , 4 ° 41' 3.4"  E