Brotte-lès-Luxeuil
Brotte -lès- Luxeuil is a commune in Luxeuil -les- Bains in the Haute- Saône in the Franche-Comté region with an area of 687 hectares, with 216 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011). The altitude is 305 m.
The first mention of the place was built in 1265th He came to this date and up to the revolutionary year of 1789 in the possession of the Abbey of Luxeuil.
Attractions
- The medieval, in the year 1284 documented Castle, originally a comprised of walls and flanked by four corner towers plant, which is now known as the Château Brotte, gave the Abbey of Luxeuil as a fief to the Lords of Mollans. Of the previously erected in the courtyard houses is nothing more to see, since the buildings and the walls were used as a quarry for the construction of houses in the area in the 18th century and systematically demolished. In 1950, there were still two towers, one of which was demolished in the following years, partially. Since 1993, the plant is privately owned and is systematically restored in collaboration with the historic preservation office. The Donjon, which served as a residential tower, has been completely restored.
- The castle opposite the church was preserved in the course of an assessment made in the 19th century renovation of the church tower from the 18th century. When designing their altar was a stone bas-relief of the 16th century use. The church retains further statues from the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Also worth seeing is the beautiful, dating from the 19th century fountain of pink sandstone with its restored washhouse, where the local women washing their laundry until a few years ago.
Ailloncourt | Baudoncourt | Breuches | Breuchotte | Brotte -lès- Luxeuil | La Chapelle- lès- Luxeuil | Citers | La corbière | Dambenoît -lès -Colombe | Éhuns | Esboz - Brest | Froideconche | Lantenot | Linexert | Magnivray | Ormoiche | Rignovelle | Sainte -Marie- de - Chaux | Saint- Sauveur | Visoncourt
- Commune in the department of Haute- Saône
- Place in Franche -Comté