Tuméjus Castle

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Tuméjus Castle, view from the southeast

The Tuméjus Castle ( French Château de Tuméjus or Maison-forte de Tuméjus ) is a castle in the Lorraine commune of Bulligny ( Département Meurthe-et-Moselle ) in the French region of Grand Est . It emerged from a fortress from the 15th century and has retained much of its defensive strength, although it was heavily modified at the beginning of the 17th century and in the 18th century. Parts of the building and the palace park have been under monument protection since February 13, 1997 as an inscribed Monument historique ( inscrit ) . The property cannot be visited.

history

The castle on the General Staff map from 1820–1866
Views of the castle by É.-D. Orly, 1874

Around the year 1432 Ferry I. de Ligniville, who came from an old Lorraine family, built a fortified tower-like house around 700 meters north of the center of the village of Bulligny. By marrying the Countess von Graux, he came into the possession of the then Seigneurie Tuméjus. Through his son Gérard and his nephew Ferry II it came to Didier de Ligniville, who sold half of the house in 1527 to the cathedral chapter of Toul . Didier's nephew Jacques de Ligniville († 1571) had necessary repairs carried out on the building and acquired rights and land, so that the Toul chapter finally only owned a few shares in Tuméjus. Jacques' son Christophe succeeded his father in the Seigneurie, but died himself in 1578. He left the property to his two sons, who divided it between them by a contract of October 14, 1608. The building had previously been repaired around 1604/1605.

According to the annals of Demange Bussy, who came from Toul, the complex was destroyed on May 2, 1636. Presumably it was a razing by the French who had occupied Lorraine at the time. One of the two owners, Philippe-Emmanuel de Ligniville, sold his half of the house in 1647 to Claude Jacquot, whose great-grandchild Pierre Rutant also acquired the second part in 1744 and thus reunited the property in one hand. Shortly afterwards, he began renovating the building. His son Pierre-Louis sold the castle to Jean-Claude Pierron in 1749, who had further changes made to the building, giving it its current appearance. For example, he had the two south towers of the main building laid down and the large window openings on the south facade broken out. His granddaughter Julie married Nicolas Joseph Lefebvre and brought Tuméjus Castle into their marriage. Several other changes of ownership followed before the Jambois family bought the property in 1895. Henri Jambois restored both the main and auxiliary buildings and had a French garden laid out. His daughter Ivane married the Bonjean family, who are still the owners today.

In the middle of the 19th century an orangery and an apiary were built and the forest park belonging to the property was laid out. After Hurricane Lothar damaged many trees in 2000, the forest was reforested the following year .

description

Site plan of the castle as it was in 1810

The palace complex consists of a main building and the economic and auxiliary buildings to the south of it. All buildings stand on an area measuring around 75 × 80 meters, which was previously surrounded by watering . This trench is only preserved today on the east side and partly in the south. It is fed by the Poisson stream flowing past the castle to the north. Access to the castle is from the south and was previously only possible by means of a drawbridge over the moat.

The main building is a three-story building with a hipped roof . It has an almost square floor plan with a side length of 16.25 meters and a height of about 10.50 meters. The two northern corners are marked by two round towers with an outer diameter of eight meters and conical roofs . The west of them has a square ground floor. Loopholes in the towers are still evidence of the house's former strength. The two southern counterparts of the towers were demolished in the 18th century.

literature

  • Jacques Choux: Bulligny. Château de Tumejus. In: Yvan Christ (ed.): Le Guide des châteaux de France. Meurthe-et-Moselle. Hermé, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-86665-012-3 , pp. 29-30.
  • Sébastien Jeandemagne: Châteaux et maisons fortes du Toulois, part 2. In: Etudes Touloises. Vol. 30, No. 108, 2003, ISSN  0395-238X , pp. 3–16 ( PDF ; 652 kB).
  • Étienne-Dominique Orly: Notice sur le château de Tumejus et sur la Blaissière, ban de Bulligny. In: Mémoires de la Société d'archéology lorraine et du Musée historique lorrain. Row 2, Volume 2. Crépin-Leblond, Nancy 1874, pp. 386-447.

Web links

Commons : Tuméjus Castle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Domaine du château de Tuméjus in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ a b Jacques Choux: Bulligny. Château de Tumejus. 1985, p. 29.
  3. ↑ Sébastien Jeandemagne: Châteaux et maisons fortes du Toulois, part 2. 2003, p. 15.
  4. ↑ Sébastien Jeandemagne: Châteaux et maisons fortes du Toulois, part 2. 2003, p. 16.
  5. ↑ a b Sébastien Jeandemagne: Châteaux et maisons fortes du Toulois, part 2. 2003, p. 13.
  6. ↑ Sébastien Jeandemagne: Châteaux et maisons fortes du Toulois, part 2. 2003, p. 14.

Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 35.4 "  N , 6 ° 20 ′ 40.1"  E