Château de l'Hôtel de Ville

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château de l'Hôtel de Ville stands in the centre of La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois, in the Val d'Aubois, east of the Cher, and today houses the town hall (parc Maurice-Fuselier). The present building, in the neo-Gothic style, dates from the nineteenth century: it was built at the initiative of an ironmaster, at a time when the iron and steel industry of the Val d'Aubois was booming. The site, however, has a longer history: the château rests on a wall of the fortified enclosure attributed to the eleventh century, and its builders reused carved stones from an earlier château dating from the fifteenth century. The building thus combines the medieval fortification of the town, the seigneurial residence of the late Middle Ages and the home of a nineteenth-century industrialist. In 1936, the commune bought the property to house its municipal services; the building has kept this function, and its park has become a public space.