Domaine de Curis-au-Mont-d'Or dit domaine de la Trolanderie (également sur commune de Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or)

English translation

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History

The estate, known from 1270, is restored by Jean-Antoine Morand in 1769. In 1794, the property extends over 50 hectares. From 1841, the estate is resold in parcels to different owners, including Count Jean-Baptiste de Chazelles who has the architect Curieux realise a plan of the hydraulic network feeding the basin. In 1890, the project for the arrangement of the park is entrusted to the landscape architect Luizet. In 1933, the civil society Ozanam of Lyon becomes its owner and establishes a boarding college there. The entire property is resold in 1970. In the 1980s, the estate is acquired by SOGIMM which arranges housing there. The estate comprises a pentagonal main dwelling flanked by three circular towers, a chapel, an orangery and outbuildings, in a wooded and landscaped park. The three towers mark the angles of the enclosure of the High Middle Ages. Three principal phases of construction emerge. A first in the 14th-15th centuries with the stronghouse, the towers, a spiral staircase. A second from 1769 to 1774 with the remodelling of the château and the laying out of the gardens. Finally, a third phase in 1885-1890 corresponding to the intervention of the architect Curieux, with modification of the outbuildings, realisation of the Moroccan salon, the chapel and the orangery, and rearrangement of the park. The rooms have retained their decoration: Versailles parquet, 19th century fireplaces, wainscoting, doors of the 15th century, mosaic flooring, painted woodwork, marouflage canvas, Pre-Raphaelite stained glass...