En un regard
Le château en bref
Founded around 1142–1150 by the Count of Hainaut, Le Quesnoy received a castle and ramparts with circular towers and a ditch. From 1533, a modern enceinte with five bastions partly replaced the medieval wall. Captured by Louis XIV in 1654 and definitively French under the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), the town was remodelled by Vauban from 1668: four bastions dating from the time of Charles V were kept, four new ones were built, orillons and countergards were added, and a flooding system was organised around the Demi-lune des Suisses and the étangs d'Aulnoye, du Fer à Cheval and du Pont Rouge. In 1678, Le Quesnoy became part of the first line of the Pré Carré. The ramparts, declassified in 1901, survive intact and belong to the commune.
- Époque de construction
- 1142–1150
- Localisation
- Le Quesnoy, Nord
- Protection
- Monument historique
- Usage actuel
- Remparts appartenant à la commune du Quesnoy ; enceinte, demi-lunes, redoutes et défenses isolées classées monuments historiques par arrêté du 14 mars 1944.