Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Birac
Birac-sur-Trec, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les ruines du château en totalité, ainsi que son sous-sol (cad. C 39 à 41) et le pigeonnier de son ancienne métairie (cad. C 177) : inscription par arrêté du 9 décembre 1993
- Protection dates
- 1993/12/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Birac-sur-Trec
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.49139, 0.27618
- Mérimée reference
- PA00125249
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 1783 map "72 Castillonez, Velleneuve, La Reole." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
De cette forteresse de plan quadrangulaire édifiée vers le début du 16e siècle au creux d'un vallon, il subsiste essentiellement les courtines et divers ouvrages (bastion, tours, pavillon d'entrée). Les bâtiments qui, dans la cour intérieure, s'appuyaient aux murailles ont disparu. Seules les baies perçant le rempart signalent leur ancienne présence.
English translation
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History
Of this fortress of quadrangular plan built around the beginning of the 16th century in the depths of a valley, there remain essentially the curtain walls and various works (bastion, towers, entrance pavilion). The buildings which, in the interior courtyard, leaned against the walls have disappeared. Only the openings piercing the rampart indicate their former presence.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise3 mi
- Hallehalle3 mi
- Châteauchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.