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Vernéville Château stands at the heart of the village of Vernéville, west of Metz. It succeeded a medieval fortress under the authority of the Bishopric of Metz and the Abbey of Saint-Arnould, whose rights are recorded in 1224. The present château was rebuilt at the beginning of the seventeenth century, probably for Nicolas de Roucel: the local urban planning document and the tourist office give 1626, the municipal website 1628. Its most remarkable feature is a gatehouse tower fitted with machicolations, listed as heritage to be preserved. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the estate passed to parlementaires from Metz, then in 1735 to the Huyn family, who kept it until 1906. It was then sold to the Rombas steelworks, which installed a preventorium and an aérium there for the children of their employees; it subsequently served educational and medical purposes. Since 2005, it has been divided into private apartments. It is not protected as a historic monument.