Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Tressan, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château de Tressan en totalité (cad. A 972, 973) : inscription par arrêté du 12 août 2015
- Protection dates
- 2015/08/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Tressan
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.57436, 3.49018
- Mérimée reference
- PA34000112
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1778 map "57. Lodeve." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La construction du château demeure peu, voire pas documentée. La seigneurie, mentionnée dès 969, passe à la maison de La Vergne en 1410. Cest à elle que revient le majeure partie des travaux auxquels la demeure est redevable de ses dispositions actuelles. Lorganisation urbaine médiévale et lemprise des fortifications sont difficilement repérables en raison des nombreux aménagements post-médiévaux. Lenceinte urbaine du 14e siècle, selon un plan du compoix de 1770, est un quadrilatère irrégulier, ponctué de tours et percé de trois portes. Aux 14e et 15e siècles, dimportants remaniements ont lieu (croisées à modénature gothique ou Renaissance) et le château semble bénéficié dun certain prestige au 17e siècle, ainsi que le laisse supposer la présence de lévêque de béziers, en 1605. Au 18e siècle, la demeure a alors pratiquement tout perdu des caractères dun château-fort pour se transformer, au 19e siècle, en grosse maison bourgeoise.
English translation
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History
The construction of the castle remains little, or indeed not at all documented. The seigneury, mentioned as early as 969, passes to the house of La Vergne in 1410. It is to them that the greater part of the works is due to which the dwelling owes its present arrangements. The medieval urban organization and the extent of the fortifications are difficult to identify because of the numerous post-medieval modifications. The urban enclosure of the 14th century, according to a plan from the compoix of 1770, is an irregular quadrilateral, dotted with towers and pierced by three gates. In the 14th and 15th centuries, important alterations take place (mullioned windows with Gothic or Renaissance moulding) and the castle appears to have enjoyed a certain prestige in the 17th century, as is suggested by the presence of the Bishop of Béziers in 1605. In the 18th century, the dwelling had then practically lost all the characteristics of a castle-fortress to be transformed, in the 19th century, into a large bourgeois house.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Jacqueséglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Julienéglise2 mi
- Église paroissiale Sainte-Catherine d'Alexandrieéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.