Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Domaine de la Haute-Braconnière
Dompierre-sur-Yon, Vendée, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La maison-tour et les communs, en totalité (cad. B 1277, 1356) : inscription par arrêté du 17 novembre 2010
- Protection dates
- 2010/11/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1602
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Dompierre-sur-Yon
- Département
- Vendée
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.75091, -1.38004
- Mérimée reference
- PA85000039
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La maison-tour du manoir de la Haute-Braconnière, édifiée vers 1602, figure parmi les rares exemples de maisons fortes construites dans le Nord de la Vendée au lendemain des Guerres de Religion, par une communauté protestante implantée sue un territoire très majoritairement catholique. Le manoir conserve encore des bâtiments de communs probablement contemporains de la construction de la maison-tour, comme l'atteste la présence régulière des baies en plein cintre.
English translation
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History
The tower-house of the manoir de la Haute-Braconnière, built around 1602, is among the rare examples of fortified houses constructed in the North of Vendée in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion, by a Protestant community established on territory that was overwhelmingly Catholic. The manoir still retains outbuildings probably contemporary with the construction of the tower-house, as evidenced by the regular presence of round-arch openings.