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Origin and history

Château de la Bergerie is a 19th-century building located in Dompierre-sur-Besbre, in the Allier department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is 3 km northeast of the village, near the confluence of Besbre and Roudon. This castle replaced a estate dependent on the Abbey of Sept-Fons, attesting to an old occupation of the site.

The building consists of a long body of rectangular houses, framed by two round towers on the south-east facade and two small square towers on the other side. The communes were converted into workshops, now housing an association dedicated to the occupational integration of people with disabilities. The castle park is included in the pre-inventory of remarkable gardens.

Historically, the Bergerie site was already a fief in 1503, as Claude Conchon, squire and seigneur of the place testify. This castle thus illustrates the evolution of a medieval estate into a 19th century bourgeois residence, while preserving traces of its abbatial and seigneurial past.

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