Illkirch-Graffenstaden · Bas-Rhin
The orangery and park gate of the former Château Klinglin
Of the château built in 1735 for the royal prætor Klinglin, destroyed during the Revolution, the garden side is what survives: the orangery and the wrought-iron park gate on the road to Lyon.
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From the source
Ancien château Klinglin is a château at Illkirch-Graffenstaden, Bas-Rhin, in the Grand Est region of France. The recorded building campaign dates from the 18th century. It is protected as a monument historique at the second level (inscrit). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The heritage record is brief but precise. The château itself was demolished during the Revolution; what was listed in 1970 are the façades and roofs of the orangery, together with the park gate facing the route de Lyon. An orangery is by definition a garden building, built to overwinter citrus and tender plants, so what remains of Klinglin is essentially the memory of its garden.
Recommendation
Come for the gate and the orangery: two fragments that tell you an eighteenth-century pleasure ground once stood here.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00084754 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Illkirch%20rteLyon%20106%20%282%29.JPG — CC BY-SA 4.0
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