Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines de l'ancien château
Saint-Geniès, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (ruines) : inscription par arrêté du 2 mars 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/03/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Geniès
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.99449, 1.25148
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082838
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Vieux château détruit au moment des guerres de Religion, et faisant sans doute partie d'un ensemble avec la chapelle voisine.
English translation
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History
Old castle destroyed at the time of the Wars of Religion, and probably forming part of an ensemble with the neighbouring chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomptionégliseunder 1 mi
- Chapelle du cimetière dite chapelle du Cheylatchapelleunder 1 mi
- Château de Cipièreschâteau3 mi
- Église de Saint-Crépinéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.