Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château du Rieutort
Roquelaure, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures du château et de ses communs (cad. D 571) : inscription par arrêté du 28 décembre 1967
- Protection dates
- 1967/12/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Roquelaure
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.72993, 0.61347
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094904
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 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château présente un plan assez nouveau pour son époque. Il se situe à une période de l'histoire architecturale locale où les constructions de ce genre se débarrassaient complètement des éléments fortifiés encore très communs au 16e siècle. La cour est enserrée entre les communs.
English translation
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History
The château presents a plan quite new for its period. It is situated at a period in the history of local architecture when constructions of this kind were completely freeing themselves from fortified elements still very common in the 16th century. The courtyard is enclosed between the outbuildings.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseéglise2 mi
- Égliseéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.