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Castle of Offémont

Hauts-de-France ; Oise (60) ; Saint-Crépin-aux-Bois

Tracy le Mont-Chateau d'Offemont Facade

On the road leading to Tracy-le-Mont you can let yourself be surprised by the imposing castle set at the top of a hill, on a magnificent terrace. It overlooks the valley of the Fourchon stream above the treetops, at a short distance from the abbey. One The fortress was established in the 12th century on this site. The castle was rebuilt in the end of the fifteenth century. In 1674, according to the records consulted by Paul Guynemer, the seigneury includes the castle, composed of a main building in ashlar and four large towers, the lower courtyard with the dovecote, etc; the park in which there are 321 acres of coppiced woods, 160 mines of arable land. The current castle, transformed until the nineteenth century, is listed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments. The The south façade has retained a seventeenth-century spirit, while the north façade It has a feudal appearance with four towers. It opens onto a terrace bordered by a moat, closed by a beautiful eighteenth-century gate. Commons of the seventeenth century adjoining the façade. At the southern entrance, the old pheasantry has has been converted into a dwelling. The Parc d'Offémont is an area of 410 hectares made up of the vast majority of forest as an extension of the of Laigue and traces of English-style gardens laid out in the nineteenth century. The The private site is fenced by stone walls, dating back to the 16th century. The First descriptions of a park date back to 1383 "The manor house is surrounded by a garden: the 24 arpents increase the old park; A place called Le Clos contains fishponds, aunois, wastelands, brushwood, meadows, woods". The park is It is crossed by 30 km of forest paths, traced since the Middle Ages. The The main trail, the Route des Maîtres, connects the Porte Saint-Crépin to the south and Tracy's Gate to the north, passing by the castle. At the two entrances there are erected a guardhouse and a gate. Today it is still It is possible to see from the peripheral paths, the pond and the remains of the Abbey of Sainte Croix.

MH protected elements: the remains of the church and the two cloisters; the entrance to the abbey; the tithe barn; the dovecote and all the soils of the former Sainte-Croix abbey: classification by decree of 9 July 1962. The facades and roofs of the castle and outbuildings; Terraces and retaining walls: listed by decree of 22 February 1963.

Château d'Offémont 60170 Saint-Crepin-aux-Bois, private property, does not visit not.

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Tracy le Mont-Chateau d'Offemont Facade à Tracy-le-Mont (cartorum.fr)

Domaine d'Offemont à Saint-Crépin-aux-Bois - PA00114852 (monumentum.fr)

La Brinvilliers, l'empoisonneuse La marquise Marie Madeleine de Dreux d'Aubray, la fille d'un acquéreur du domaine d'Offémont, près de Saint Crépin (1642) fut bien la fameuse empoisonneuse, célèbre à l'époque de Louis XIV.Il n'est pas difficile de retrouver son histoire dans une abondante bibliographie.A l'époque, même Madame de Sévigné en a fait allusion dans sa correspondance...

Maison du Gardien 2 | La Brinvilliers, l'empoisonneuse La ma… | Flickr

Domaine d'Offemont (culture.gouv.fr)

Ruines de l'abbaye Sainte-Croix, vue partielle (culture.gouv.fr)

Chateu d'Offémont, France (by Ombre and Lumiere)

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