France · Restored
Château de Pignerolle
The Château de Pignerolle is an 18th-century neoclassical country house east of Angers in Maine-et-Loire, France, built in 1776. During World War II the estate was adapted as a Kriegsmarine U-boat western command centre with extensive concrete bunkers, barracks and a service tunnel; after the war the grounds were restored and the château later housed a communications museum.
Its prime
1943
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1943
The shape it held in its prime.
A two-storey rectangular neoclassical château of pale stone with a symmetrical four-column central portico, tall multi‑paned windows with triangular pediments on the ground floor, a broad flight of stone steps to the central doors and a low balustraded roofline. The house sits on flat, open parkland with clipped hedges and gravel forecourt; nearby are wartime additions of low, heavy concrete bunker blocks and long single‑storey wooden barracks clustered in the park.
Its story
The story of Château de Pignerolle.
The Château de Pignerolle is an 18th-century neoclassical country house at Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou, east of Angers in Maine-et-Loire, built in 1776. During the Second World War the estate was adapted as a Kriegsmarine western command centre for the U-boat arm, with extensive concrete bunkers, barracks and a service tunnel.
Acquired by the city of Angers in 1971, the park, gardens and château were restored over the following twenty years, and the château later housed a communications museum. The gardens remain open to the public and occasional events are held in the park.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1943.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Château de Pignerolle — including 2 interiors: central state room repurposed as staff offices, command bunker communications room. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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