Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Trave
Préchac, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de la Trave : ruines et sous-sol correspondant à l'implantation du château (cad. AB 75) : inscription par arrêté du 22 décembre 1987
- Protection dates
- 1987/12/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Dates
- 1306
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Pont de la Trave
- Commune
- Préchac
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.40982, -0.34222
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083677
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 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Puissante forteresse construite vers 1306 et détruite à la fin du 16e siècle. Elle se composait d'une enceinte principale rectangulaire, renforcée de tours d'angle carrées. Sur la face nord-ouest se trouvait une basse-cour ceinte d'une courtine.
English translation
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History
Powerful fortress built around 1306 and destroyed at the end of the 16th century. It was composed of a main rectangular enclosure, reinforced with square corner towers. On the north-west face was found a bailey enclosed by a curtain wall.
Nearby in the register
- Château de la Travette, dit château de la Füechâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Lienségliseunder 1 mi
- Château de Cazeneuvechâteau2 mi
- Église collégiale Notre-Dameéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.