Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château Cocu
Auzat-sur-Allier, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château Cocu : inscription par arrêté du 17 juillet 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/07/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Auzat-sur-Allier
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.45103, 3.31255
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091879
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1712 map "Les Provinces et Gouvernemens Du Lionnois ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ruines importantes flanquées de tours cylindriques et restes du mur d'enceinte. Ces ruines sont assez récentes, le dernier habitant connu remontant à 1840.
English translation
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History
Substantial ruins flanked by cylindrical towers and remains of the enclosure wall. These ruins are fairly recent, the last known inhabitant dating back to 1840.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Géraudégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Sainte-Madeleineéglise2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame de Mailhatéglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Nicolaséglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.