Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien château médiéval et vestiges qui en dépendent
Exmes, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Château médiéval (ancien) et vestiges qui en dépendent (cad. G 79, 357, 358, 82, 83) : classement par arrêté du 7 septembre 1979
- Protection dates
- 1979/09/07 : classé MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Lieu-dit
- les Fosses ; le Château
- Commune
- Exmes
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.76261, 0.17817
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110802
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Perchensis Comitatus : La Perche Comte" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Aux 10e et 11e siècles, la ville d'Exmes devint une place forte. Les guerres de Religion eurent pour conséquence la destruction du château fort et de ses murailles. Le rôle d'Exmes comme ville forte était fini.
English translation
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History
In the 10th and 11th centuries, the town of Exmes became a fortified place. The Wars of Religion resulted in the destruction of the stronghold and its walls. The role of Exmes as a fortified town was at an end.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.