Châteaufort, Yvelines
Château Fort is a commune with 1415 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the Yvelines department in the Île- de -France region; it belongs to the district of the canton of Versailles and Versailles -Sud.
Geography
Château Fort is located on the eastern edge of the department, 20 kilometers southwest of Paris city center. The district includes parts of the Plateau de Saclay and the Chevreuse Valley Regional Nature Park and belongs to haute vallée de Chevreuse.
Neighboring communities of Château Fort is Buc and Toussus -le -Noble in the Northeast, Villiers -le- Bâcle in the Southeast, Saint- Rémy -lès- Chevreuse in the south, Magny -les- Hameau in the south and west, and Guyancourt in the north.
History
The community owes its name to a medieval castle (French Château fort ). Lords of Château Fort de Montlhery Gui were in the 11th century, and later his son Hugues de Montlhery, the Großseneschall of France, King Louis VI. possession taken away. In 1480 King Louis XI was. the fief to Ludwig von Brabant from 1529, King Francis I is Jean de la Barre. 1616 Château Fort went to the house of Guise, on 27 June 1650, the family of Charles d' Escoubleau, Marquis de Sourdis.
Château Fort later belonged to three different departments at: 1790 it became part of the newly created department of Seine- et- Oise, 1964, ( with effect on 1 January 1968) in the distribution of Seine- et- Oise added to the department Essonne; a few months later, in November 1969, Château Fort came to the Yvelines department.
On August 20, 1913 Adolphe Pégoud succeeded over the airfield of Château fort of the first parachute jump.