Château de Corcelle
The Château de Corcelle is a castle located in the commune of Bourgvilain in Saône-et-Loire département of France, on a small plateau dominating the valley of the Valouze.
Description
The buildings of the castle are ordered around a rectangular interior court and are connected by stretches of curtain walls; they are girded on three sides by partly filled-in moats. This quadrilateral is flanked by round towers on north east and south west corners. Against the eastern curtain wall, the principal main building is flanked on its eastern façade, opening onto the farmyard, by a small rectangular building. A cart gate under a semicircular arch next to a pedestrian door under a flat arch, give access to the farmyard.The castle is private property and not open to the public. It has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.
History
- 984: the name of Corcelle is cited in a map of Cluny
- from 14th to beginning of 16th century : the Verrey family were lords of Corcelle; the castle seems to have been constructed during this period
- 1520: the fiefdom passed to the Busseul Saint-Sernin family
- 1642: sale of the castle to Laurent de Laube
- 1780: by marriage to Jeanne-Antoinette de Laube, it passed to Louis de Leusse
- 1794: after the preceding was decapitated, his widow sold the property to the Martinot brothers, one of whom was mayor of Bourgvilain and a tax farmer-general