Costaérès Castle
The Costaérès Castle ( French Château de Costaérès ; Breton Kastell Kostaerez ) is a neo-Gothic castle in the Côtes-d'Armor department in France . It stands on a rocky island of the same name in front of the north coast of Brittany - the so-called Côte de Granit Rose - not far from the beach of Ploumanac'h belonging to the municipality of Perros-Guirec , but still in the area of the municipality of Trégastel .
history
The representative building was built from 1892 to 1896 as the residence of the Lithuanian-Polish mathematician, electrical engineer and inventor Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz in the neo-Gothic style of historicism based on the model of medieval castles . The extension was only completed after his death. The castle was the meeting point for many Polish emigrants such as Aleksander Gierymski , Władysław Mickiewicz , Leon Wyczółkowski and the Polish Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz . Sienkiewicz was close friends with Abakanowicz; his novel Quo Vadis , published in 1895, was written at Costaérès Castle.
Since 1988 it has been the second home of the German actor Dieter Hallervorden .
In line of sight there is a house opposite on the mainland that Albert Eiffel, Gustave Eiffel's son, built in 1903 as a summer resort.
Web links
- Costaérès Castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Dossier on the castle (French)
supporting documents
- ↑ Perros-Guirec, Ploumanac'h, Maison de villégiature dite Villa Ker Awel. November 9, 2017, accessed April 5, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 7 " N , 3 ° 29 ′ 33" W.