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April 9, 2009
Bressuire 790049 79300
Deux-Sèvres Poitou-Charentes
46.840 -0.491 182 m

Castles and bell-tower, Bressuire.

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Other sight.

Medieval fortress of the 11th 12th 13th centuries.
Neo-gothic castle of the 19th century.
Gothic bell-tower of the 10th 12th centuries

_The MEDIEVAL CASTLE which dominates the city and the valley of Dolo river, is quoted in a charter of 1029.
Its first known Lord is Thibault de Beaumont, founder of Notre-Dame de Bressuire church.
Built on a Gallic oppidum, its visible oldest parts go back to 1066.
Initially a rectangular keep, and a first enclosure at the 11th century were built.
In 1190, 38 turns are divided on an enclosure of 700 m, which surrounded the fortress and its 8 grosses towers. the entries were defended by towers comprising 4 stages of defense.
_The One hundred Year old War started in 1338, and the initial French defeats had as a consequence, the treaty of Brétigny in 1360, which delivered to the English Poitou, Saintonge, the Angoumois, the Limousin, the English Channel, Périgord and Quercy. The castle was delivered to the English garrisons and was released by the Constable of King de France Charles V, Bertrand du Guesclin, in 1371.
_Several family acquired the castle without maintaining it, the last of them made build a NEO-GOTHIC CASTLE in the court of the keep in 1878.
Property of the town of Bressuire since 1975, the castle is registered with the Historic buildings since 1997.

_The GOTHIC BELL-TOWER, 56 m high, of Notre-Dame de Bressuire church, of 10th century 12th centuries.
Notre-Dame church whose mention appears in 1090, is given by the lord of Bressuire, Thibaut de Beaumont, to the Benedictines monks of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes abbey.
The frontage and the nave, date from 11th and 12th century.
The chorus, dates from 15th and 16th centuries, equipped with eight large bays.
The stained glasses of the nave and the bedside were installed in 1863,1875,1882 and 1892.

Bressuire is a french commune, located in the department of Deux-Sèvres of the Poitou-Charentes area, populated of 17799 Bressuirais in 1999, distributed out of 182 km², that is to say 98 hab./km².

_Bressuire is located in the middle of the bocage from Poitou, where hedges and trees are the limits of meadows and fields of forms irregular and variable surfaces, there where the isolated farms or the hamlets are dispersed in the countryside.
The hedges contribute to the storage of water, with the regulation of the local climate, as has the limitation of the populations of devastating insects, by protecting the birds and other wild animals.

_Bressuire bore the name of “Berzoriacum” in 1029, then “Bercorium” in 1095, which would mean “the fortress on the hill”. Bressuire has the ruins of old and wide medieval fortress.
estroyed.

_The Wars of religion of the 16th century, the Wars of the Vendée of the 18th century, the Second world war 1939-1945, damaged successively the city.

My images of Bressuire.