Hombourg-Haut · Moselle
The pleasure garden of Château d’Hausen
Built around 1762 beside the Wendel forge at Hombourg-Haut, the château keeps the garden shown on the cadastral plan of 1836 as the 'jardin d’agrément', listed in full in 2019.
From the source
Château d'Hausen is a château at Hombourg-Haut, Moselle, 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
Charles de Wendel obtained permission in 1758 to set up a forge on the Rosselle and built the château close to it around 1762. In 1808 it passed to Ignace d’Hausen, nephew of Wendel’s widow, and the 1836 cadastral plan already shows the domain much as it is today: château, outbuildings and the pleasure garden. The house later belonged to the Gouvy company, then to the Saar-Moselle collieries, whose nationalised successor made it its headquarters; since 2004 it houses the town hall. The 2019 listing covers the garden in its entirety, with its terracing, basins, low walls, steps, the remains of the former ornamental pond, the palisade and the grotto, as well as the orangery and the gardener’s house.
Recommendation
An industrialist’s garden of the Enlightenment that survived the coal age intact, grotto and orangery included.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA57000043 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
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