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The Château de la Guerche lies west of the church of Saint-Pierre in Savennières, some distance from the old village centre. Its name, derived from the term "guerche", meaning a fortified place, suggests a foundation dating back to the eleventh century, when the lordship belonged to the family of Savennières. The château was not the nucleus around which the settlement developed: the village instead grew towards the north. The priory of Saint-Romain, founded around the middle of the twelfth century by monks from the abbey of Saint-Serge in Angers, adjoined La Guerche and may have been established within its enclosure. In the nineteenth century, a neo-Gothic château was built on the site of the former medieval complex.