Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes du Château fort de Coppel
Saint-Julien-de-Coppel, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Coppel (restes) : inscription par arrêté du 9 novembre 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/11/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Julien-de-Coppel
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.68325, 3.33114
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092368
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
Ruines semblant remonter au 13e siècle et qui faisaient partie d'un ensemble de châteaux forts groupés autour de Billom. Ces ruines ont fait partie de l'apanage des comtes d'Auvergne. Elles présentent une tour éventrée sous laquelle se trouvent des salles souterraines, ainsi que des pans de murs.
English translation
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History
Ruins seeming to date from the 13th century and which formed part of a group of fortified castles gathered around Billom. These ruins were part of the appanage of the Counts of Auvergne. They present a tower gutted below which are found underground rooms, as well as sections of walls.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Julienéglise1 mi
- Château de la Chaux-Montgroschâteau2 mi
- Église de la Vialleéglise2 mi
- Ensemble des ruines du château fortchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.