France · Partial ruin
Motte castrale de Doué-la-Fontaine
The Château de Doué-la-Fontaine is a motte-and-bailey site in Doué-la-Fontaine, France, built atop a 9th–10th-century Carolingian aula. A stone castle and donjon were added around the 10th–11th century; most of the motte and the later keep no longer survive. The rectangular Carolingian aula (23 by 17 metres) with very thick masonry walls is the principal surviving structure on the site.
First raised
1000
Its prime
1000
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1000
The shape it held in its prime.
At its prime (circa 1000) the site presented a roughly circular 5-metre-high earthen motte crowned by a stone donjon/keep, the motte enclosing and partly burying an earlier rectangular Carolingian aula measuring about 23 by 17 metres. The aula’s walls were massive (c.1.8 m thick) of dressed masonry; an added upper floor opened to an external doorway above the buried hall. The ensemble combined raw earth profile and compact stone massing.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1000.
The record describes 6 distinct spots at Motte castrale de Doué-la-Fontaine — including 3 interiors: buried aula (cellar), prison chamber within the buried building, added upper-floor chamber above the aula. 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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See Motte castrale de Doué-la-Fontaine with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1000 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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