chateaudortiesalbris@gmail.com
Route de Pierrefitte
41300
SALBRIS
Loir et Cher
FRANCE
The chateau is currently owned privately by an English couple who bought the chateau in 2022
after a long drawn out sale of nearly 2 1/2 years.
Due to Covid , checking of 30 years of a business accounting (previous Enterprise that owned the chateau)
the death of both partners of the Enterprise (2016 & 2019), finalising of both partners estates.
This web site is from information only, for anyone who may be interested in the history of the castle,
gathered via internet and information received by local people
living in Salbris and surrounding area.
The out buildings are currently under extensive renovation,
after being left unattended for a number of years (2016),
now requiring new roofing, electrics, plumbing and decoration.
The castle is set in just under 100 acres of forest, with a river boundary (Grande Sauldre),
private fishing lake and a large walled garden.
The chateau is in good condition, it needs decoration, has already received new electrics throughout,
after the fire in the late 70's it was important to get everything checked, good job we did, the fuses in
the main fuse box had been wired incorrectly which meant they would not have tripped!
If you have any information you would like to share please
Email chateaudortiesalbris@gmail.com
Since the Middle Ages, Salbris has been a modest village, belonging to the Abbey Saint-Sulpice de Bourges.
The village was small and limited to the streets radiating around the church.
Nowadays, with the development of the railway in the 1850s,
the village has become an important town in the heart of the Sologne region.
The chateau of d'Ortie dates from the fourth quarter of the 19th century, currently privately owned,
on site gites can be rented all year round ideal for summer relaxation holidays or hunting between September -March
This house is of the classic Solognot type, the structure is made of red bricks and stones for the base.
The facade of the main dwelling is decorated with five travels, aired by large windows with latticework.
Four panes and a transom light up the dwellings generously.
The windows on the upper level are topped by a simple triangular pediment.
The entrance pavilion features a balcony with a wrought iron railing crowned by a console and corbels.
A sculpted bust is centred in the gable and strings of lines and black rhombuses decorate the brick sections in places.
The main body is flanked by two towers, one circular and the other polygonal.
A comparison of the present appearance of the castle with an old postcard allows us to compare the castle's current appearance with
that of a former postcard.
A comparison of the present appearance of the castle with an old postcard shows that their roofs, respectively conical and with long broken sections, have disappeared.
It would seem that a fire in the 1980s caused damage requiring extensive restoration.
Leaning against the castle, an annex, perhaps a winter kitchen, supports a slate mansard roof whose breaks are punctuated by three dormer windows above arcades.
Overlooking the main courtyard, a small outbuilding welcomes the visitors.
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Louis d'Assas du Mercou known as " the knight of Assas ",
born July 20, 1733in Vigan and died on the night of the 15thOctober 16, 1760
during the Battle of Kloster Kampen in Westphalia , is a French soldier and gentleman
Louis d'Assas was born on July 20, 1733in Vigan ,
He comes from one of the oldest Languedoc families , who owned the lordship of Assas (Hérault) ,
near Montpellier , in the area since the 11th century .
The family has Protestant origins in the 16th century (several members of the Assas family had been important war leaders for the Huguenot party in the Cévennes during the wars of religion ),
but it was in the Catholic faith that the young Louis was baptized on July 26, 1733.
In 1756, at the start of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763),
he went to Lower Normandy to oppose the English landing.
He is part of the camp assembled at Granville .
The Chevalier d'Assas was killed, undoubtedly, in one of the road posts of Meurs or the hedges of Camper-Bruch.
with the cry of: “Mine, Auvergne; it's the enemy! » that we owe the salvation of the French camp and the glory of the day.
(Source - Wikipedia)
It is understood that when Marie Antoinette found out about the heroism of Louis d’Assas,
she granted his family 50,000 hectares of land in Loir et Cher, 41300 Salbris. France.
Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis
Born: November 2, 1755, The Hofburg, Vienna, Austria
Died: October 16, 1793, Place de la Concorde, Paris
In 1905, the Comité Central Agricole de la Sologne decided to build a private mansion to house its headquarters.
Louis Duthoit, the chosen architect, was known for his Art Nouveau buildings, but here he has remained in the style of classic official buildings.
The materials used came from the demolition of the Château de Chéreau (Montrieux in Sologne) dating from the late 19th century
Why was it built?
At the end of the 19th century, Sologne began to catch up in terms of modernising its agriculture.
With the support of the State under the reign of Napoleon III and thanks to the activities of the Comité Central Agricole de la Sologne or CCAS,
officially founded on 25 June 1859.
The CCAS was a veritable conduit for ideas and methods designed to develop a natural region with a reputation for poverty,
as Napoleon III wished. To demonstrate its success and impact after fifty years of successful efforts of successful efforts,
the CCAS wanted to build an official headquarters in Lamotte-Beuvron, in other words, in the centre of Sologne.
A majority vote was therefore taken at a general meeting held in Lamotte-Beuvron on 23 October 1905.
The architect selected was Louis Duthoit.
He belonged to a family of architects who had worked for the Second Empire, his father Edmond Duthoit in particular.
He had already worked in the Orléans region.
He was hired for a project at the Château d’Orties in Salbris.
He presented his plans to the CCAS in February 1906.
The estimate was 26,000 francs, including the architect's fees.
That same year, the CCAS acquired the land from Mr Pelletier for the sum of 3,965 francs 1906.Construction soon followed, in 1908.
Construction of the CCAS headquarters from the demolition of a château in Chéreau.
Bernard, a masonry contractor from Ivoy-le-Marron, supplied the materials and manage the construction.
Although there are no surviving documents relating to the progress of the work,
we do know that the materials came from the demolition of a château in Chéreau (in the commune of Montrieux in the Sologne),
purchased by Mr Bernard.
At Chéreau, there was an old building that still exists, and a second one that was built at the end of the 19th century.
Barely built, the second building was sold in 1900, then demolished.
The demolitions were then used to build the headquarters of the CCAS: an estimate found by B.
Toulier gives a list of the many items salvaged from Chéreau : basement walls, meeting room,
exact reconstruction of the château hall, tiles, fireplaces, floor, château terrace, all similar but lower,
exterior facing similar to that of Chéreau, acroterial balustrade with balusters,
plinth and handrail, structural woodwork, locks, hardware, joinery and the caretaker!s pavilion.
(source & information Noel Parrot)
Château de Chéreau demolished before 1900
Chateau d'Ortie before 1909
Chateau d'Ortie after 1909