Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines du château fort
Montaigut-le-Blanc, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (ruines) : classement par liste de 1889
- Protection dates
- 1889 : classé MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée, propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Montaigut-le-Blanc
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.58734, 3.08991
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092198
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
Berceau de la famille des Montaigut. Les matériaux de ce château ont dû être réutilisés pour la construction du hameau de la Croix du Bois. Restes de courtine avec plusieurs tours, à l'est. Grande cour intérieure.
English translation
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History
Birthplace of the Montaigut family. The materials of this castle must have been reused for the construction of the hamlet of la Croix du Bois. Remains of curtain wall with several towers, to the east. Large interior courtyard.
Nearby in the register
- Porte de la villeporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Tour de Rognonédifice fortifié1 mi
- Menhir dit Pierre Fichademenhir2 mi
- Église Saint-Loupéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.