Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Motte féodale et donjon (restes)
Doué-la-Fontaine, Maine-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Motte féodale et donjon (restes) (cad. AH 386, 387, 398) : classement par arrêté du 19 décembre 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/12/19 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 9e siècle, 10e siècle, 3e quart 15e siècle
- Dates
- 1468, 1472
- Commune
- Doué-la-Fontaine
- Département
- Maine-et-Loire
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.18786, -0.28042
- Mérimée reference
- PA00109089
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 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le plus vieux donjon de France : 10e siècle
English translation
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History
The oldest keep in France: 10th century
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Denis (ruines)égliseunder 1 mi
- Site de la Seigneuriecarrière souterraine1 mi
- Domaine du château de Bussy-Fontaineschâteau2 mi
- Moulin à vent des Bleucesmoulin2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.