Dunois Castle

Dunois Castle - access side

The Dunois Castle ( French Château Dunois ) is located in the center of the French commune of Beaugency in the Loiret department of the Center-Val de Loire region , around 20 kilometers (as the crow flies) west of Orléans . The building was classified as a Monument historique in 1925 .

history

One of the many historical, public and ecclesiastical buildings in Beaugency is the imposing medieval castle consisting of a 36 meter high donjon . Just a short distance from the 11th-century fortress , Jean de Dunois , the former comrade in arms Jeanne d'Arcs and often the Bastard of Orléans ( French Bâtard d'Orléans ), built the castle named after him after he was through his Married Marie d'Harcourt had become lord of Beaugency. He lived in the castle from 1440 to 1457 before making Châteaudun his residence. The castle belonged to the Dunois-Longueville family until 1789, after which it was empty.

use

After it was first used as an asylum for the poor and later as a holiday colony for the department, the Musée de l'Orléanais , a regional museum for art and tradition , was finally housed in the three-storey wing of the palace complex. In addition to various collections of customs in Orléans and the surrounding area, memorabilia from the writer Eugène Sue can be seen.

architecture

The Dunois Castle is a typical 16th century city residence with split windows and a stair tower from the 14th / 15th centuries . Century. The eye-catcher of the inner courtyard is the hexagonal stair tower, which opens up the interior of the former residential wing ( Corps de Logis ). The premises have been radically changed over the last two centuries, and only a few wall chimneys and the attic rooms with their beams have largely been preserved in their original state.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Château de Dunois, Beaugency in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

literature

• Wilfried Hansmann : The Loire Valley. Castles, churches and cities in the garden of France . 2nd Edition. DuMont, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7701-6614-0 , p. 78 ( online ).
• Castles and cities of the Loire . Valoire-Estel, Florence 2006, ISBN 88-476-1863-0 , p. 19.

Web links

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

• Online dossiers from Base Mérimee (French)
• Photo and information (French)
• Dunois Castle on the side of the Conseil général du Loiret (French)

Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 39.9 "  N , 1 ° 38 ′ 0.4"  E