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Frontenay Castle dans le Jura

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine défensif
Demeure seigneuriale
Château fort
Jura

Frontenay Castle

    Chemin de l'Église 
    39210 Frontenay
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Château de Frontenay
Château de Frontenay
Château de Frontenay
Château de Frontenay
Château de Frontenay
Crédit photo : Arnaud 25 - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Moyen Âge central
Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1100
1200
1300
1400
1500
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
1109
First written entry
1446
Transmission to Gauthier de Fallerans
XIVe siècle
Construction of dungeon
1637
Taken by the French armies
8 novembre 1991
Registration Historic Monuments
2007
Creation of the Jazz Festival in Frontenay
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Castle, including the basement and archaeological remains contained in it (Box ZH 134, 136): inscription by order of 8 November 1991

Key figures

Jean de Chalon - Lord of Arlay Builder of the 14th century dungeon
Louis II de Chalon-Arlay - Lord and donee Confeded the castle to Gauthier de Fallerans in 1446
Gauthier de Fallerans - Cook and then family ancestor Beginning 600 years of hereditary transmission

Origin and history

The Château de Frontenay is a private fortress built in the 12th century in the eponymous village of Jura, Burgundy-Franche-Comté. First testimony written in 1109, he was then bound to the Counts of Burgundy by his lords. This archaeological site, perfectly preserved, combines a 14th century massive dungeon – built by Jean de Chalon to secure the salt road to Salins – with medieval remains and 18th and 19th century developments. Its ditch, filled in the 18th century, gave way to commons, while a building body bears the date of 1773.

In 1446 Louis II de Chalon-Arlay entrusted the castle to Gauthier de Fallerans, a squire whose descendants (Fallerans family, then Visemal, Montrichard, Chamberet and Sury d'Aspremont) have managed it for 600 years, a record of family continuity. The monument was taken by the French armies in 1637 during the Ten Years War. Open to the public since the 1990s, it has been listed as a Historic Monument since November 8, 1991, including its basement and archaeological remains.

Today, the castle combines summer tourism (guided tours, Jazz Festival in Frontenay since 2007) and event activities all year round (seminars, weddings). Its architecture thus combines military history – with a dungeon flanked by towers – and subsequent residential adaptations, as evidenced by the partial collapse of a building in 1946. The site remains a symbol of the Jurassian nobility and its territorial anchor.

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