Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Homps, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château constitué de la tour, de la cour et du rempart (cad. B 484) : inscription par arrêté du 19 mai 1999
- Protection dates
- 1999/05/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Homps
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.81086, 0.85614
- Mérimée reference
- PA32000010
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1778 map "73 Agen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Lieu fortifié implanté à la fin du 13e siècle à la pointe d'un éperon, abandonné pour une demeure plus agréable bâtie au 16e siècle. Vendu comme bien national à la Révolution, le château a servi de carrière. Seule la tour transformée en pigeonnier a été épargnée.
English translation
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History
A fortified place established at the end of the 13th century at the point of a spur, abandoned for a more pleasant dwelling built in the 16th century. Sold as national property at the Revolution, the castle was used as a quarry. Only the tower transformed into a dovecot was spared.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.