The Château de Reux is a castle in
Reux
Reux is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
It is the location of the Château de Reux, a Rothschild family residence.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Calvados department
The following ...
,
Calvados
Calvados (, , ) is a brandy from Normandy in France, made from apples or pears, or from apples with pears.
History In France
Apple orchards and brewers are mentioned as far back as the 8th century by Charlemagne. The first known record of Norm ...
,
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
, France.
History
The castle was acquired by
Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild
Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (24 February 1868 – 30 June 1949), also known as Baron Édouard de Rothschild was an aristocrat, French financier and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France.
Early life
Born in Pari ...
in 1868.
The garden includes a small pond.
There is also artwork by
Norbert Kricke
Norbert Kricke (30 November 1922 – 28 June 1984) was a German sculptor.
Born in Düsseldorf, Kricke was a student of Richard Scheibe and Hans Uhlmann at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin. He started creating abstract sculptures from ...
.
As of 1777, it included
faience
Faience or faïence (; ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major ad ...
by
Bernard Palissy
Bernard Palissy (c. 1510c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called "rusticware", typically highly decora ...
.
In the 1960s, German painter
Francis Bott was commissioned to design the stained glass in the chapel.
[''Horizon'', Horizon Publishers, 1962, p. 29]
References
Châteaux in Calvados (department)
Rothschild family residences
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