Haroué castle

General description :

 

For the summer L13 contest of the Brickpirate forum into the Architecture section, I choose to reproduce a castle built into the XVIII century : the Haroué Castle situed into Lorraine, France..

 

The Haroué castle or Haroué Palace is situed into the centre of the Haroué village, south of Nancy.

It has been built from 1720 to 1729 on a ancient castle preseving its 4 main towers and the moats.

The castle presents interesting characteristics relatied to a year :

- 365 windows,

- 52 chimneys,

- 12 towers (some are included into the building),

- 4 bridges over the moats.

Today, it is still occupied by the descendants of prince Marc de Beauvau-Craon who was the initial owner.

 

For tis castle, the starting point are the towers at the corners because, at this scale, it is not possible to use other parts that 2x2 round bricks with a cone on top. This fixes the scale of the MOC.

 

At this scale, from the 4 mains characteristics points given above, the chimneys have been sacrified (most of such castle have chimneys), only the 6 outside towers are kept in order to preserve the U form of the castle, the nulber of windows has been reduced but the 4 bridges are present. Finally, as a main decorative element, the huge trees of the forward court allowing to date the representation at the end of spring after rain.

 

Enjoy.;-).

Done