Château de Dax was a castle in

Dax Dax or DAX may refer to: Business and organizations * DAX, stock market index of the top 40 German companies ** DAX 100, an expanded index of 100 stocks, superseded by the HDAX ** TecDAX, stock index of the top 30 German technology firms * Dax Ca ...

Nouvelle-Aquitaine Nouvelle-Aquitaine (; oc, Nòva Aquitània or ; eu, Akitania Berria; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Novéle-Aguiéne'') is the largest administrative region in France, spanning the west and southwest of the mainland. The region was created by ...

in southwestern

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ...

History

The castle was once the home of Viscounts of Dax. The castle was captured by the French in 1442 and also in 1451 during the

Gascon campaign of 1450-1453 Gascon may refer to: * Gascony, an area of southwest France * Gascon language * Gascon cattle * Gascon pig * Gascon (grape), another name for the French wine grape Mondeuse noire People * Elvira Gascón (1911–2000), Spanish painter and engrave ...

to expel the English from the

Duchy of Gascony The Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia ( eu, Baskoniako dukerria; oc, ducat de Gasconha; french: duché de Gascogne, duché de Vasconie) was a duchy located in present-day southwestern France and northeastern Spain, an area encompassing the ...

. Decommissioned as a military barracks in 1888, the castle was demolished in 1891.

References

*Ducourneau, Alexandre. La Guienne Historique et Monumentale Tome 1 seconde partie. 1842. (French) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dax Châteaux in Landes (department) Demolished buildings and structures in France Buildings and structures demolished in 1891