Château d'Oricourt

The Château d'Oricourt is a castle in the commune of Oricourt in the department of Haute-Saône, in the Franche-Comté region of France.

In the latter are a collection of buildings from the 12th and 15th centuries, including the well, a cistern, bakery, cellars and a grand dining room.

Two square towers, 25m (~81 ft) high, dominate the curtain walls and deep ditches.

The last lord of Oricourt was the husband of Jeanne Claude de Cordemoy, François Gabriel, marquis of Chapuis After the Revolution, the town of Oricourt made an unsuccessful appeal to the authorities to demolish the fortifications and fill in the ditches, symbols of feudalism.

Parts of the castle were protected as a monument historique on the list of the French Ministry of Culture since 1913, and in its entirety since 1984.