Vaussieux Castle
The Vaussieux Castle ( French Château de Vaussieux ) is a castle complex in Vaux-sur-Seulles , a French village in Normandy . The complex has been under monument protection as Monument historique since July 1970 . Especially known as the castle named after a French were military operation , with camp de Vaussieux is referred to, and in which the French Marshal de Broglie in the castle moved into its headquarters.
history
Already in 1056 Vaussieux belonged to a family of the same name, whose first member known by name was Hugon de Vaussieux. The property came to Guillaume de Taillebois in the 13th century. In 1413, Catherine de La Luzerne sold the Seigneurie to Germaine de Longchamps. From this family the rule came by marriage to the Grimonvilles, who sold them in 1605 to the de Thioult family. Marthe Marie Le Héricy, widowed de Thioult, bequeathed the property to her relative, the Marquis d'Héricy, Jacques-Philippe-Auguste Le Héricy, because her marriage to Arthur Antoine de Thioult had remained childless. In 1771 he had the previous building from the time of Henry IV replaced by the current building and in August 1778 made it available to Marshal de Broglie as the headquarters for a military maneuver in Normandy, which is named after the castle camp de Vaussieux . According to official statements, two tactics popular at the time were to be compared in the operation, which comprised around 30,000 men. In truth, it was the French King Louis XVI. but much more about supporting the American soldiers in their struggle for independence against England . Due to the massive military presence on the coast of France, the English were forced not to let a large part of their fleet leave the port, although it should have brought urgently needed supplies and troops to the British colonies in America.
In the 19th century the owners were called Fournés. The Marquise de Fournés left the castle to her daughter, a Baroness du Charmel. This left it in the early years of the 20th century restored before the plant during World War II was sold and subsequently served as a holiday. The American Burton Huntington-Wilson bought the castle and had it renovated in 1963 . At the same time the palace garden was restored.
description
The lock system consists of a three-bladed logis , a southeast thereof lying generous Vorburg and the former lock mill southwest of the mansion stands. The former mill building is an elongated, two-story building with a half-timbered upper floor .
A wrought-iron gate on the south side of the area, which stands at the end of a small forecourt delimited by a stone baluster parapet, provides access to the castle grounds . From there, an approximately 80-meter-long dead straight path leads to the middle risalit of the strictly symmetrically designed lodging in the sober style of the classicist baroque . The three-story main building has large lattice windows that can be closed on the ground floor by white shutters . On the first floor there are small balconies with baluster parapets in front of all windows . The individual floors are separated from each other by simple cornices made of stone .
The eight-axis central wing of the Logis is connected at right angles to its east and west ends by two equally high side wings with corner blocks, the southern narrow sides of which are crowned by a round gable at the level of the attic . All wings of the building have a hipped roof . The central central axis of the building is particularly emphasized by a two-axis central projection. It has the typical decorative features of the Louis Seize style and is crowned by a triangular pediment .
The interior of the dining room is particularly remarkable. The space as wall decoration has pilasters with Corinthian capitals , on a Sockelvertäfelung dark marble stand, and an elaborately designed frieze of stucco - arabesques . In a niche lined with pink marble and framed with purple marble stands a fountain with a bronze statue of a bathing woman, which is a copy of a work by Étienne-Maurice Falconet . The room is furnished with mahogany furniture from the 18th century.
literature
- Claude Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux de Normandie . Hachette, Paris 1966, pp. 274-275.
- Philippe Seydoux: Châteaux du Pays d'Auge et du Bessin. Éditions de la Morande, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-902091-14-1 , p. 104.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry of the castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ a b c C. Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux de Normandie. 1966, p. 274.
- ↑ a b bayeux-intercom.fr ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed September 26, 2015.
- ^ A b P. Seydoux: Châteaux du Pays d'Auge et du Bessin. 1992, p. 104.
- ↑ Information according to the online cadastral map for Vaux-sur-Seulles.
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 6.1 ″ N , 0 ° 37 ′ 25.8 ″ W.