Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes de Château fort
Busséol, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (restes) : inscription par arrêté du 17 juillet 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/07/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Busséol
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.69289, 3.25655
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091927
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 1712 map "Les Provinces et Gouvernemens Du Lionnois ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Château féodal édifié au début du 11e siècle par Pierre et Etienne de Busséol, puis reconstruit en 1170 par Guillaume VIII, comte d'Auvergne. Edifice ruiné depuis la Révolution, rare exemple de l'architecture militaire du 12e siècle.
English translation
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History
Feudal château built at the beginning of the 11th century by Pierre and Etienne de Busséol, then rebuilt in 1170 by Guillaume VIII, count of Auvergne. An edifice in ruins since the Revolution, a rare example of the military architecture of the 12th century.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Georgeséglise1 mi
- Maison Domatmaison2 mi
- Château de Fontanaychâteau2 mi
- Château de Montfleurychâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.