Château de Bainville-aux-Miroirs

Bainville-aux-Miroirs Castle

Bainville-aux-Miroirs

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Château de Bainville-aux-Miroirs stands in Bainville-aux-Miroirs (Meurthe-et-Moselle), in the Grand Est region of France. Its opening hours and prices have not been verified at the source yet.

Above the Moselle river, on a rocky spur next to the church and a former priory, stand the remains of a stronghold built in the thirteenth century by the counts of Vaudémont. Destroyed by Lorraine's troops in 1468 and never rebuilt, it later served for centuries as a source of reclaimed stone and is now reduced to a few sections of masonry. The most striking remnant is a stone spire some twenty-six metres high, the last trace of an oval keep whose walls reached up to eight metres thick in places. Near its top the springing of a ribbed vault can still be made out, and at its base a partly preserved vaulted hall remains.

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What to know

The site is a ruin with no known visitor facilities.
Access is via a stairway leading toward the neighbouring cemetery, on elevated ground.
No full archaeological excavation has taken place, so the exact layout of the enclosure remains uncertain.
The small chamber at the base of the keep's spire has its entrance blocked and cannot be visited.
The site stands next to a church and the former site of a Benedictine priory.