Does anyone recognize this castle?

[Drachenfire]

Found this castle on the internet, but have no idea where it is or its name. It looks French.

 

[Riotkiller]

Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers. Image search is your friend

 

[Drachenfire]

Very beautiful, thank you very much!!

 

[Sanny]

Wasn't this the french chateau that the internet crowd-funded for restoration work.

 

[Drachenfire]

Ive learned that it was indeed!

 

[Graf Zeppelin]

Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers. Image search is your friend

Thats cheating

 

[Riotkiller]

Thats cheating

Must be the Greek in me always looking for shortcuts. An image search here, some tax evasion there, now a string-free bailout here...

 

[Klausewitz]

Must be the Greek in me always looking for shortcuts. An image search here, some tax evasion there, now a string-free bailout here...

Before you know it you are up to your neck in pictures again and need another shot of Swabian austerity from the Graf. Just you see!

 

[Riotkiller]

Before you know it you are up to your neck in pictures again and need another shot of Swabian austerity from the Graf. Just you see!

But I don't wanna be a New South German!

 

[Mder1]

But I don't wanna be a New South German!

You don't choose the broom, the broom chooses you.

 

[Graf Zeppelin]

You don't choose the broom, the broom chooses you.

Damned right.

 

[Sarmatia1871]

Wasn't this the french chateau that the internet crowd-funded for restoration work.

Yes yes - the best castles are those that have been rebuilt several times according to successive views of what the middle ages should have been like.

 

[Mder1]

Damned right.

I'm becoming a damn good Swabian Whisperer.

 

[Avernite]

I'm becoming a damn good Swabian Whisperer.

As if Swabian wasn't hard enough to comprehend when spoken aloud...

Also, the castle looks very Disney

 

[JodelDiplom]

Also, the castle looks very Disney

That's just the way the photographer manipulated the colors in the photograph

 

[TheFlemishDuck]

That's just the way the photographer manipulated the colors in the photograph

Nah, it's pretty and i presume build for that purpose. The defensive quality is definatly suspect with such thin walls even for towers and openings close to the ground. It has a lot of architectural elements that are purely there for aesthetics.

It's very pretty and charming even as a derelict.

The Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers is a former stronghold of the Bauçay family, lords of Loudun. The stronghold dates to the thirteenth century and was originally called Motte Bauçay (or Baussay). The Motte Baussay was taken twice by the English in the Middle Ages and devastated during the French Revolution.

It was bought in 1809 by François Hennecart, a wealthy businessman. In 1857 it was sold to Baron Joseph Lejeune. In 1932, a major fire destroyed most of the buildings in the castle.[1]

In December 2017, 18,600 members of an online community raised €1,600,000, by paying at least €50 each, to purchase the castle with the aim of restoring it.

I presume that the way it looked during the French revolution was very different than how it looked during the thirteen century. ill leave it to others to judge but i'm especially looking at the masonry and i don't believe that stonemasons in the 13th century would have made such nice smooth brick walls, though i think the base has probably older stone.

I do hope they use it for a nice purpose. Something for the youth would be nice, the site also has an extensive domain for gardens and such.

 

[JodelDiplom]

Nah, it's pretty and i presume build for that purpose. The defensive quality is definatly suspect with such thin walls even for towers and openings close to the ground. It has a lot of architectural elements that are purely there for aesthetics.

Hey I didn't say it wasn't pretty. Just that is isn't "Disney". By that I meant that the walls aren't painted white like that color-manipulated picture might indicate, they are actually naked sandstone which is not white at all. It's also not roofed so the rain will soak you wet, and the wind will howl through the unfurnished window openings at night unlike what you probably have in a proper Disney fairy tale castle. But our understanding of what makes a "Disney" quality might differ