Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Motte castrale
Saint-Jean-de-Thurigneux, Ain, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Motte castrale (cad. A 137 à 139) : inscription par arrêté du 19 septembre 1989
- Protection dates
- 1989/09/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Later work
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Ligneux
- Commune
- Saint-Jean-de-Thurigneux
- Département
- Ain
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.96311, 4.88329
- Mérimée reference
- PA00116605
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)IGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1708 map "La Bresse, Le Bugey..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fondation du site castral dans la seconde moitié du 12e siècle. Abandon du site au 15e siècle. Le site se compose de deux parties : motte entourée d'un fossé encre en eau et grande basse-cour fermée par des fossés en partie comblés. Sur la plate-forme supérieure de la motte, vestiges d'un grand bâtiment de plan pentagonal irrégulier, construit en briques. Il s'agit vraisemblablement des restes d'un manoir du 17e siècle.
English translation
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History
Foundation of the castle site in the second half of the 12th century. Abandonment of the site in the 15th century. The site consists of two parts: motte surrounded by a water-filled ditch and large lower courtyard enclosed by partly filled ditches. On the upper platform of the motte, remains of a large building of irregular pentagonal plan, built in bricks. This is probably the remains of a manor of the 17th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.