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Origin and history

The Château de la Tour de Romanèche is a medieval building located in Romanèche-Thorins, Saône-et-Loire. Built around 1450, it is distinguished by its defensive architecture, with ditches fed by living water, remains of a enclosure preceded by a low courtyard. The main body, accompanied by two wings in return of square, is flanked by two round towers at external angles. The low roofs, covered with hollow tiles, complete this typical set of Burgundian castles of the late Middle Ages.

Originally, the castle belongs to the Chabeu family. At the end of the 16th century, it was sold by Étienne de Rébé, husband of Françoise de Chabeu, to Claude de Noblet. By covenant, the property then passes to the Thibaut, who are named Noblet. In 1717 it was acquired by Abel-Michel Chesnard, whose descendants founded a chapel in 1751. The estate changed hands several times: sold in 1791 to Jean-Frédéric Schalleimer, a young Swiss, then acquired around 1840 by Clément Carra. In the 20th century, it belonged successively to the Barmont family (1928) and to Les Veilles (since the 1950s). Recently, it was bought by the Morel family and is undergoing renovations.

The castle, still privately owned, is not visited. Its history reflects the social and economic changes of Burgundy, from medieval noble families to bourgeois owners of the 19th and 20th centuries. The ditches and defensive elements recall its military origin, while the subsequent transformations show its adaptation to residential and agricultural uses over the centuries.

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