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Le château en bref
The former château of the Counts of Lallaing stood at the heart of Lallaing, in the Nord department, on the site of the present town hall. The site, occupied from the 12th century by a motte-and-bailey (motte castrale), became the principal stronghold of the House of Lallaing in the 13th century. At the end of the Middle Ages, a crenellated polygonal enclosure, punctuated by at least four cylindrical towers, surrounded the church; it was entered through a powerful quadrangular keep dating from the 12th century, flanked to the north-west by a square turret two storeys taller, and whose south-east façade received, in the 16th century, four bays of mullioned windows. Three gouaches from the Croÿ albums preserve its image. Passing to the Arenberg family in the 17th century, the château fell into decay during the wars of Louis XIV; it was sold in 1904 to M. Morel, then in 1943 to the Compagnie des mines d'Aniche, before being acquired by the commune in 1959. The last buildings disappeared during the construction of the town hall. Only a bridge and the remains of the gateway survive, listed as monuments historiques on 20 October 2003, in the public garden.
