Château de la Fin

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Le château en bref

The Château de la Fin is located in the commune of Thiel-sur-Acolin, in the Allier department. The present estate results from the merging of three distinct medieval seigneuries, each established on a castle motte: La Fin-Baron, whose original castle had already disappeared by 1554; La Fin-Fourchaud, held by Pierre Calbrun in 1343 and then passed to Jean Mareschal around 1435; and La Fin-Rabotin, cradle of the Bourbonnais family of La Fin from the 13th to the 16th century, who were also lords of Beauvoir, Lurcy and La Nocle, and vidames of Chartres. The land then passed to the Montalban and later the Champfeu families, before falling in the early 18th century to the Michel de la Barre family, which kept it until the French Revolution. The present château was built in 1871 on the site of the former seigneurial houses, which had by then been abandoned. It consists of a rectangular main building (corps de logis) with two upper floors and an attic, its façades enlivened by an alternation of pink brick and white stone highlighting the corners and the window and door surrounds. Two asymmetrical square pavilions mark the corners, the larger with four levels and the smaller with three; a third square pavilion animates the garden façade. Owned by the Bougerolle family, the château is not open to visitors but remains visible from the outside.