Meudon Castle

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The Meudon Castle ( French Château de Meudon ) was a castle in Meudon in the French department of Hauts-de-Seine .

Reconstruction of the castle
Reconstruction of the terraces
The observatory on the site of the New Palace
The parks in the 17th century

The castle was based on a medieval castle and was expanded in the 17th century in the Baroque style according to plans by the architect Louis Le Vau . It was the residence of the Marquis de Louvois , then the Grand Dauphins .

The latter had the so-called New Castle ( Château neuf in French ) built right next to the old one by Jules Hardouin-Mansart by 1706 . The palace's spacious park areas are particularly well known to this day .

The old castle burned down during the French Revolution in 1795. The New Palace was destroyed in fighting in January 1871 during the Franco-German War. An observatory was built on its foundation with parts of the original facade. The parks were restored under Georges Poisson . The palace park has been under monument protection as a monument historique since 1937 . Today's entire complex was added to the French list of monuments in April 1972 .

literature

  • PL Ossude: Le siècle des beaux-arts et de la gloire, ou La mémoire de Louis XIV . Dufaure, Versailles 1838, pp. 248-249 ( online ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry of the palace area in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on May 18, 2011.
  2. ^ Entry of the castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on May 18, 2011.

Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '18.9 "  N , 2 ° 13' 58.5"  E