Moret-sur-Loing castle
The castle Moret-sur-Loing ( French Château de Moret-sur-Loing ) was a castle in Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne , a town in the Seine-et-Marne department of the Île-de-France region , on a medieval Castle went back. The building at 15 rue du Donjon is protected as a monument historique .
The royal castle was built between 1128 and 1150 for Ludwig VI. and Ludwig VII. erected. From this fortification , after being destroyed and converted into a castle in the 17th century, only the former donjon remains, which is now used as a residential building.
A large rose window can be seen in the middle of the street , under which a balcony was attached. Coupled windows structure the facade. Buttresses at the corners remind of the former fortified character of the donjon.
literature
- Christian Corvisier: Moret-sur-Loing. Château et enceinte urbaine . In: Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (ed.): Le guide du patrimoine. Île-de-France . Hachette, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-01-016811-9 , p. 461.
- Georges Poisson (ed.): Dictionnaire des Monuments d'Île de France . Hervas, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84334-002-0 , p. 554.
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-et-Marne . Volume 2. Flohic, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-100-7 , p. 1004.
Web links
- Château de Moret-sur-Loing in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 15 " N , 2 ° 49 ′ 8.3" E