Hattonchâtel

Old commune of the Meuse, the commune of Hattonchâtel amalgamated with several others in Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel in 1973.

Located at an altitude of 355 m, the small town dominates of 80 m the plain of the Woëvre and the Lac of Madine.

History

Hattonchâtel constitutes the old residence of Hatton, bishop of Verdun at the time Carolingian.

Then, during the the Middle Ages, the city is the first fortress of évêché and the ordinary seat of its court of the Large-Days: a charter of 1352 specifies that Hattonchâtel was the principal place where the bishops made strike currency (and this until in 1546).

In 1636, Hattonchâtel undergoes a 15 day old seat on behalf of the Swedes who withdrew France. The city then was ransacked and burned.

Castle of Hattonchâtel

Personalities related to the commune

Hubert Michel Fortunate Legagneur, born in Hattonchâtel in 1797, died in Paris in 1876. Magistrate, par of France, commander of the Legion of Honor. Fall in Hattonchâtel.
Charles-Auguste Salmon (1805-1892). Magistrate. Deputy of the Meuse in 1848 and 1849. Delegated by the French government to the peace talks in 1871 in charge of the defense of the interests with the magistrates and members of the legal profession of Lorraine and Alsace annexed by Germany. Senator of the Meuse in 1876. Corresponding member of the institute (Acad. Sc Morals and Policies). Fall in Hattonchâtel.
Rupprecht of Bavaria, crown prince, wire of last king de Bavière Louis III. Marshal of the German army. Hattonchâtel occupied during the war of 1914-1918.
Beautiful Miss Skinner, American, bienfaitrice of Hattonchâtel of which it contributed to raise the ruins after the war of 1914-1918. Him the rebuilding of the castle is owed.

Monuments

Castle-extremely, initially built into 860 by the Hatton bishop, was destroyed at the time of the First World War. It is then rebuilt between 1923 and 1928 in a style Néorenaissance. Construction takes again part of the old buildings: most of the northern wall and the arc of the gate.

Gothic House with arcades.
collegiate Church Saint-Maur sheltering a retable Rebirth out of polychrome carved stone of 1523 allotted to Ligier Richier: represent three episodes of Passion.

It was rebuilt by the canons at the 14th century then restored after the First World War (modern stained glasses of Jacques Gruber).

beside the church a cloister of the 14th century.
Old house of the families Aubert, Legagneur and Salmon-Legagneur, rebuilt after the Great War.
War memorial of 1914-1918 whose principal figure, a woman in meditation in front of the skin of his/her child, is due to the sculptor Ernest Nivet; this one also decorates the war memorial of the town of Châtre in the Indre.

External bond

Castle of Hattonchâtel

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