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Le château en bref
On the outskirts of Thionville, the Donnerscheuer estate, also spelled Donneurscheuer or Donnerschaier, is listed by the General Inventory as a manor house, but its appearance as a fortified house has led to it being described as a château. Originally a substantial rural estate dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, it was granted in 1611 to Baron d'Eltz. It was later sold to Jean Valentin Klein and Marie-Élisabeth de Friederiche, who inherited it after her husband's death in 1674. The building is plain: one and a half storeys under a large hipped roof, flanked by a massive square tower of the same height and reinforced by corner buttresses. The outbuildings are roofed with Roman tiles, and a square dovecote completes the ensemble. Moats surrounded the estate until around 1880. The building is not listed as a historic monument and remains privately owned.