Timeline

Heritage classified

Origin and history

The house located at 14 rue Diemer-Duperret in Montbéliard is a composite building whose origins date back to the late 16th or early 17th century for the building on street and the ground floor of the body on courtyard. These ancient parts testify to the late Renaissance urban planning in this then Protestant and princely city, marked by its attachment to Montbéliard County.

In the 18th century, a period to which the first half is attributed for the floors of the body on courtyard and staircase, the building underwent major changes. The staircase, now protected, and its gallery, illustrate the architectural style of this period, while the painted ceilings on the first floor, such as that of the West room, reveal a concern for refined decoration. These elements date back to a period of prosperity for Montbéliard, then integrated into European commercial and cultural networks.

The 19th century saw the elevation of the building body on street, changing the original silhouette to adapt to growing space needs or to changes in urban norms. In the 20th century, a uniting under one roof of the two buildings and the courtyard completes the transformation of the whole, partially erasing the distinctions between old and modern parts. Finally, remains of the medieval rampart, integrated into the body on courtyard, recall the defensive origin of the city and its evolution since the Middle Ages.

Classified Historic Monument by decree of 12 January 1990, the house specifically protects its staircase with its gallery and the painted ceiling from the West room to the first floor. These protections highlight the heritage value of the most representative elements of the different construction periods. The location, although noted as "passable" (level 5/10), allows to situate the monument in the historic centre of Montbéliard, near the old ramparts.

The building, now located at 14 rue Lucie Diemer Duperret, embodies nearly five centuries of urban history. Its stratified architecture offers a material testimony of the successive adaptations of a bourgeois dwelling, from the Renaissance to the contemporary era, in a city marked by its industrial past and its princely heritage.

External links