Grand Est
Departments in this region: Ardennes, Aube, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Haute-Marne, Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Vosges
Chateaux of Grand Est
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Château de Vaux
Designed in 1721 by Germain Boffrand, architect to the Duke of Lorraine, Vaux raises a Regency facade of pale Tonnerre stone in the southern Aube, crowned with carved children and unicorns. Home of Maupas, a minister of Napoleon III, it was abandoned on the eve of World War II, stripped of its…
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Château de Dampierre
A 17th-century residence attributed to François Mansart rises behind the gatehouse of a vanished fortress. Dampierre kept its grand staircase and vaulted medieval kitchen, even after its interiors were stripped in the 1930s. Bought at auction in 2021 by Antoni Calmon, a devoted doctor, this château…
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Château de Jaulny
A thousand-year-old fortified house in Lorraine, where a stubborn tradition says Joan of Arc lived on as Jeanne des Armoises: Jaulny has overlooked the Rupt de Mad valley since the Middle Ages. The château has kept its armory, its vaulted cellars and a Gothic roof frame, reinforced after World War…
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Château de Landonvillers
To give himself a fortress worthy of Germany's great dynasties, John von Haniel, a Ruhr notable settled in German-annexed Lorraine, had Bodo Ebhardt rebuild Landonvillers from 1904 to 1906, with stone shipped by train from around Paderborn. Behind its neo-medieval towers, the house hides a cellar…
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Château d'Haroué
With 365 windows, 52 fireplaces, 12 towers and turrets and 4 bridges, Haroué is a calendar in stone. Built from 1720 for Marc de Beauvau-Craon to designs by Germain Boffrand, it is one of the great classical châteaux of Lorraine. Ringed by a moat, it still holds the tapestries given by Duke Leopold…
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Château de Pouy-sur-Vannes
A cube capped by a tall tiled pyramid and flanked by four towers, Pouy-sur-Vannes wears eight centuries of history on its facades, from a 12th-century fortress built to defend Sens to the changes of the 17th and 18th centuries. Home of the Le Bascle d'Argenteuil family, then a hotel of the Legion…
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Château d'Osthoffen
Only a handful of lowland castles still stand in Alsace, and Osthoffen is one of them. Ringed by dry moats, this Wasserschloss, or moated castle, dates from around the 11th century. It was destroyed in 1416, rebuilt in the Renaissance, cut down during the Revolution and raised again in the 19th…
