Castle of the Lords of Vignory

Name: Castle of the Lords of Vignory
Start: 2017-09-16T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Château de Vignory

Come discover one of the rare medieval castles of the high valley of the Marne recently restored!

16 September 2017 - 16 September 2018Passed

Conditions

There from Chaumont, cross the village entirely towards Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises and borrow the first road to the left.

Arrived in the high - court(yard), you will be able to admire buildings restored between 2009 and 2015: the donjon, high very massive symbol of manorial power and tower in the Well, real guard placed there clocks(points,sticks) and pendent on the village, as well as the south ramparts restored by voluntary young people's construction projects since 2003.
You will also benefit from an incomparable point of view on the village, the church Saint-Étienne and the valley of the Marne.
On the spot, a descriptive panel(sign) of places and of their history(story) allows to get an idea of the life of the site.

About the location

Château de Vignory

52320 Vignory

Haute-Marne
Grand Est

The castle of Vignory is mentioned for the first time in archives in the middle of the XIth century and is the ownership of the family of Vignory implanted on the site, at the very beginning of this century. The donjon was built towards the environment(middle) of the XIIth century, in the past called "Tour Quarrée" and the different Lords will not then cease improving defences of their castle. So were raised(brought up), in the middle of the XVth century, the Tower to the Well which dominates the village and, at the end of this century or at the beginning of the XVIth century the huge Tower Popgun, (20 metres in diameters and walls 7 metres in thickness what makes it the most important for a castle in Champagne-Ardenne). Since 2003, the vestiges of the castle, listed(classified) in conformance with(for) Historic monuments, make the object of summer(summery) campaigns(countrysides) of restoration(catering) through the voluntary young people's construction projects organised by the association Histoire et Patrimoine and through construction sites(works) of insertion and professionals since 2009.