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Origin and history

The Castle of Hardoncelle is a strong house built in the 16th century on the ruins of an earlier building destroyed by the Liegeians. Located in the hamlet of Hardoncelle, in Remilly-les-Pothées (Ardennes), it offered a strategic view of the Sormonne valley and a road leading to Mézières. Its architecture, marked by a house and a pepper turret, evolved after the suppression of a tower and chapel during the Revolution.

Owned by noble families such as the Argy, Villelongue or Beffroy, the castle escaped the revolutionary destruction in contrast to the nearby La Grève castle. In 1794, an inventory was made without confiscation, allowing the Beffroy family to keep it. In the 19th century he passed to the Gailly of Taurines, whose writer Charles wrote The Four Sons Aymon and The Mystery of Passion.

During the Second World War, the castle was requisitioned by the Germans (WOL), then looted in 1944. Abandoned until 1952, he was bought by General Roger Noiret, who lived there after his military career. Today, this private estate, not open to the public, retains its dovecote transformed into an office by Charles Gailly de Taurines, offering a view of the valleys of the Audry and the Sormonne.

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