Le Luart Castle
The castle le Luart ( French Château du Luart ) is a historistisches castle from the 19th century in the French town of Le Luart ( Sarthe ) in the region of Pays de la Loire can be found. Since April 24, 1989, it is including its annex as a monument historique under monument protection . It is privately inhabited and therefore cannot be visited. The European Heritage Days ( French: Journées Européennes du Patrimoine ) are an exception, when the owner invites you to guided tours around the castle.
history
The Seigneurie Le Luart came into the possession of the Le Gras family (also spelled Legras) in 1235, who are the owners to this day. Until the 17th century, however , the rule was called Le Pin and only then received its current name. In January 1726, Le Luart was raised to marquisate for François V. Le Gras .
Between 1840 and 1848, the then Marquis de Luart, Roland Marie Le Gras, had two castles built for his two sons according to designs by the architect Pierre Félix Delarue. The younger, Philippe, received the La Pierre-en-Sarthe castle, while the Le Luart castle was intended for the older son Louis Georges Roland. During its construction, the family's old castle in Le Luart was destroyed. Only a pigeon tower remained, which was converted into a castle chapel .
On February 13, 1914, the outer bailey was partially destroyed by fire, but was rebuilt after the accident. The current owner of the castle is the former Senator Roland de Luart, the great great grandson of the former client Roland Marie Le Gras.
description
The palace complex consists of the main palace , a bailey to the north-east of it with stables, an orangery , a farm that used to ensure the supply of the palace residents, and a palace chapel that stands in the middle of the palace park . This is designed as a landscape garden, is 45.6 hectares and has been under special protection as a site classé since October 28, 1943 . The trees along its avenues are not only characterized by their size, but also by their great age. There are also various solitary trees in the park , which are very rare.
The chapel was established in the 19th century in the former pigeon tower near the castle pond. Inside is a copy of a tomb for six members of the Le Gras family, including the poet Robert Garnier , whose daughter Diane married François I. Le Gras in 1556. The original grave was in the monastery church of the Friars Minor in Le Mans , but was during the French Revolution destroyed.
The main castle is a square building with a high basement and two upper floors. At all four corners there are round towers , which are closed by high conical roofs and have imitation machicolations . The facade of the building is structured in a classical style , but with the consoles of the balconies and the machicolations as well as the windows surrounded by pilasters and the portholes in the attic, it also shows elements in the neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance styles . The central axis of the main castle is particularly emphasized by a three-axis risalite , to which a wide flight of stairs leads up. Its roof imitates a pavilion .
To the northeast of the castle is the outer bailey. It has a horseshoe shape and used to house stables for 24 horses and packs of dogs for par force hunting . The open side of the horseshoe is like a courtyard completed by a grid in the middle of a gate construction is available. To the east of the outer bailey - adjacent to the kitchen garden - is the seven-axis orangery with a hipped roof , built between 1866 and 1869 .
literature
- Philippe Seydoux: Châteaux et Manoirs du Maine. Éditions de la Morande, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-902091-18-4 , p. 68.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Castle Le Luart in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ a b Roland du Luart a guidé la visite de son château , accessed on November 16, 2015.
- ↑ a b Thomas Cauvin: Essai sur la statistique de lʼarrondissement de Mamers, Département de la Sarthe. Monnoyer, Le Mans 1829, p. 308 ( digitized version ).
- ^ P. Seydoux: Châteaux et Manoirs du Maine. 1988, p. 68.
- ↑ rouillac.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed November 16, 2015.
- ↑ Lʼincendie du château du Luart. In: LʼOuest-Éclair. No. 5533, February 18, 1914, Rennes, p. 6 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ a b Information on the site classé du Château et du parc du Luart from the Center régionale Pays de la Loire ( PDF ; 242 kB).
- ^ Entry of the tomb in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ Le Luart Castle on chateau-fort-manoir-chateau.eu , accessed on November 16, 2015.
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 58 ″ N , 0 ° 34 ′ 42 ″ E