Castle and chapel of la Corbettaz

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The manor house known as Château de la Corbettaz dates from the 18th century. Its two-storey masonry structure supports a pavilion (conical) roof. The two massive fireplaces testify to the affluence of the owners at the time.
Built from a modest base in 1784 for Jean-Jacques Remy and his wife Marie Fragnière, the house became the property of one of the six families belonging to the class of cheese barons enriched by the international Gruyère cheese trade. It was one of these families, Joseph Pettolaz, a supporter of the Enlightenment and President of the Senate of the Helvetic Republic (1800), who turned it into the château we stand in front of today.
Renovated three times in the 19th century by the de Reynold and de Zurich families, who were allied to the Pettolaz family, the château was restored in 2006 after being purchased by the Commune of Charmey in 1989 and then sold to a private individual. Two printed wall hangings from Genoa dating from the 1840s have been deposited in the Charmey Museum.
The Chapelle de la Corbettaz, dedicated to Saint Pierre, was built before the château, around 1645. It was part of the estate from which it was separated by the carriage road of 1877. The 19th-century interior decoration was destroyed in 1989 when the chapel was moved 5 m to widen the road. The altarpiece, dating from 1645, is dedicated to Saint Peter. Its diagonal composition gives this modest painting a monumental dimension. It shows Saint Peter healing a cripple in front of the gate of the Temple in Jerusalem. Saint François deSales, bishop of Annecy, is depicted in attic, a sign of the veneration in which he was held from his death in 1622, although he was not canonised until 1665.


In collaboration with the municipality of Val-de-Charmey