Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Luzerne
Chambon-la-Forêt, Loiret, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. AH 166) : inscription par arrêté du 17 septembre 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/09/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Chambon-la-Forêt
- Département
- Loiret
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.05562, 2.29461
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098730
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1782 map "8 Orleans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'édifice fut bâti à l'emplacement d'un ancien château-fort rasé vers 1112 sur ordre de Louis VI le Gros, lors des luttes contre Foulques IV le Haineux, comte d'Anjou, et les seigneurs bandits d'Ile de France. En 1417, lors de la guerre de Cent ans, le château fut fortifié par les partisans du roi pour participer à la ligne de positions avancées protégeant Orléans des Anglais. Après les destructions de la guerre de Cent ans, puis des guerres de Religion, l'édifice est reconstruit vers 1585. Il se compose d'un corps de bâtiment rectangulaire, flanqué côté nord d'étroits pavillons. Côté sud, il est accosté de deux tours aménagées aux 17e et 18e siècles, vestiges de l'ancien château-fort. Des traces des anciennes douves sont conservées au nord et à l'ouest. La façade nord offre un aspect très caractéristique de l'architecture du 17e siècle. Un ensemble de communs subsiste à l'ouest.
English translation
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History
The building was constructed on the site of an old fortress razed around 1112 on the orders of Louis VI the Fat, during the struggles against Fulk IV the Quarrelsome, count of Anjou, and the bandit lords of Île de France. In 1417, during the Hundred Years' War, the castle was fortified by the king's supporters to take part in the line of advanced positions protecting Orléans from the English. After the destruction of the Hundred Years' War, then the Wars of Religion, the building was rebuilt around 1585. It consists of a rectangular body of building, flanked on the north side by narrow pavilions. On the south side, it is accompanied by two towers fitted out in the 17th and 18th centuries, vestiges of the old fortress. Traces of former moats are preserved to the north and west. The north facade presents a very characteristic aspect of 17th-century architecture. A set of outbuildings survives to the west.
Nearby in the register
- Vestiges du château du Hallierchâteau3 mi
- Château de Courcelles-le-Roichâteau3 mi
- Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeuréglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.