Château de Montby

The founding date of the castle of Montby, in the Doubs, is unknown, but documents suggest it was built in the 11th or 12th century. Its first lords chose a strategic site, at the end of the Montby plateau, with open views on all sides as far as the Jura and Vosges mountains. Despite this, it was besieged and devastated several times, notably in the time of Charles the Bold in 1475 and in 1637 during the Ten Years' War.

Sold at auction in the Revolution, it was bought by village farmers and turned into a farm until the 20th century. The buildings form a quadrilateral around an inner courtyard that once sheltered the lord's subjects in times of danger. The courtyard has fine Renaissance façades (mullioned windows, ogee lintels), 18th-century arched lintels and an arcaded gallery dated 1611 with a seigneurial coat of arms.

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