Château de l'Asnée

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Le château en bref

The Château de l'Asnée, at 11 rue de Laxou in Villers-lès-Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), takes its name from a locality (lieu-dit) attested as early as the 16th century. The present building, dating from the 19th century, is attributed to the architect Matthieu-Prosper Morey and associated with Amédée Lefevre de Monjoye, mayor of the commune from 1871 to 1875; it combines Louis XIII and Neo-Gothic references. In the 1930s, the estate, a wooded park of about nine hectares, housed seminarians of the diocese of Nancy and then those of the Lorraine dioceses, and the Art Deco Grand Séminaire by Jules Criqui, completed in 1936, was built in front of it. The site today houses meeting rooms, a diocesan library, a radio station and a bookshop, and has hosted seminars since 2008.