Château de Hattonchâtel

The site was fortified in 860 by Hatto, Bishop of Verdun, whose name it bears, on a rocky promontory overlooking the Woëvre flat land.

The site was entirely reconstructed between 1923 and 1928 by Henri Jacquelin, a Norman architect originally from Evreux, in the Neo-Renaissance style.

He produced the ultimate "troubadour" château of Lorraine, a pastiche which used some remains from the 11th-century building.

The work was financed by the American benefactor Belle Skinner.

[1] The Château de Hattonchâtel has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1986 and is privately owned.