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Château de La Roche in Rigney dans le Doubs

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine défensif
Demeure seigneuriale
Château de style Renaissance
Doubs

Château de La Roche in Rigney

    La Roche
    25640 Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Château de La Roche à Rigney
Crédit photo : Arnaud 25 - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1400
1500
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
XIe-XIVe siècle
Period of the Roche family
Fin XVe - XVIe siècle
Reconstruction of the house
1811
Creation of a sugar factory
1847
Processing into cheese
1869
Foundation of a school farm
1986
Restoration by Jean de Foucauld
18 décembre 1998
Registration for Historic Monuments
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Housing body, including the east wing with the tower, in full; platform and ditches of the castle, soil, basement and archaeological remains that they preserve (cad. ZC 10, 20): registration by order of 18 December 1998

Key figures

Famille de la Roche - Initial owners 11th to 14th century.
Famille de Plaine - Home builders Late 15th - 16th century.
Comte de Scey - Post-revolutionary acquirer Founded a sugar factory in 1811.
M. Faucompré - Modernizer of the domain Transforms into an agricultural holding (1854).
Jean de Foucauld - Restaurant and patron Purchase and renovate the castle (1986).

Origin and history

The Château de La Roche, located in Rigney in the Doubs, is a 13th century building renovated in the 16th and 17th centuries, inscribed as historical monuments since 1998. Built on a cliff overlooking the Ognon valley, it probably succeeds a Gallo-Roman site. Property of the family of La Roche from the 11th to the 14th century, it then passes into the hands of the family of Plaine, who rebuilt the house in the late 15th and 16th centuries.

After the French Revolution, the estate was acquired by the Count of Scey, who installed a sugar factory there in 1811. The castle then became a cheese factory in 1847, then a modern farm in 1854, before building a school farm from 1869. These activities partially transform its architecture, with buildings dedicated to production (stables, barn, fenil) and industrial remains such as the mill modernized in the 19th century.

In 1986, the diamond-maker Jean de Foucauld bought the château to abandon and undertook a complete restoration to make it a place for temporary artistic exhibitions. The building preserves remarkable elements such as French ceilings, hooded chimneys, a chapel, as well as vaulted basements and the eastern wing dovecote. The ditches, platform and archaeological remains have been protected since the 1998 registration.

The site thus illustrates a typical evolution of the Frankish castles, moving from a defensive and seigneurial function to agricultural and industrial uses, before being reborn as a cultural space. Its architecture combines medieval traces, classical redevelopments and adaptations related to its successive economic activities.

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