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Le château en bref
The château de Barst, in Moselle, is a neoclassical residence built in 1835 for Louis Joseph Polti, former mayor of the commune. It occupies the site of an older château, which was ruined during the Thirty Years' War, and was erected in a garden that had until then belonged to the Forget family. Built of sandstone, rubble and partly rendered dressed stone, it rises over a basement and two square storeys behind a symmetrical façade. Its roofs, with long slopes and hips, are covered in slate and tile. A fire devastated the building in 1872, and it was not until 1967 that a restoration lasting about ten years returned it to its former appearance. The building then had various uses: a restaurant from 2013 to 2016, municipal property, and, after its sale in 2021, conversion into flats. Recorded by the Inventaire général, it is not protected as a monument historique.