Croix de chemin · Photo: OT ouest Vosges · CC BY-SA 4.0

27historic monuments

History of Neufchâteau · Monuments historiques

A secteur sauvegardé since 1999, and 27 historic monuments

The Culture ministry lists 27 historic monuments in Neufchâteau: 9 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 18 inscrit (the second level). That’s 40 for every 10,000 residents, more per resident than 99% of compared French towns; the median compared French town has 2.5. The oldest date from the 12th century. We have photos of 20 of them.

9classé 1999protected area 12th c.oldest part 1908first protected

Monuments historiques

40 per 10,000 residents
median compared town 2.5

Classé

the highest protection

Inscrit

the second level

Oldest part

12th c.

of any listed monument

Homes before 1919

15%

median compared town 7.4%

In pictures

Neufchâteau in 20 photos

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Église Saint-ChristopheClassé

ÉgliseClassé

Église Saint-NicolasClassé

Hôtel de villeClassé

Maison des GoncourtClassé+15See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.

Protected area

Neufchâteau has had a protected historic area since 1999

Sites patrimoniaux remarquables on the Culture ministry’s list, with the plan in force.

Area	Created as	Plan in force
SPR44-48	Secteur sauvegardé April 22, 1999	PSMV (safeguarding plan) March 21, 2016

A site patrimonial remarquable protects a whole area rather than one building: inside it, building work follows the area’s own plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France. A PSMV (plan de sauvegarde et de mise en valeur) is the strictest plan: it covers every building, inside as well as out.

The list gives no boundaries, so the map can’t show the area.

Map

Where Neufchâteau’s monuments stand

Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.

Classé is the higher protection: any work on the building needs the State’s permission. Work on an inscrit building must be declared to the State in advance. Around both, building work in sight of the monument (usually within 500 m) needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.

Points as the ministry gives them: a monument spread over several plots has one point. 1 monument has no point on the map.

Classé

9 classé monuments in Neufchâteau

Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. 4 of the 9 are protected in part only (a façade, a roof, a room). Each card opens the monument’s page.

Church · protected 1908Église Saint-NicolasPhoto: François BERNARDIN · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Church · protected 1908Église Saint-ChristophePhoto: BR · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Town hall · protected 1908Hôtel de villePart of the building is protectedPhoto: Ji-Elle · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Cross · protected 1908Croix de cheminPhoto: OT ouest Vosges · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

House · protected 1933Maison des GoncourtPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Ji-Elle · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Theater · protected 1983Théâtre Municipal (ancien)Part of the building is protectedPhoto: Ji-Elle · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Church · protected 1910ÉglisePart of the building is protectedPhoto: Rauenstein · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Bridge · protected 1984Vieux pont sur la Frezelle en amont de la Grande-Rue

Cross · protected 1910Croix de chemin

Inscrit

18 inscrit monuments in Neufchâteau

Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.

All 17, A to Z

Ancien couvent de la Congrégation Notre-Dame, puis ancien tribunal Ancien hôpital Saint-Jean-de-Jerusalem, actuellement sous-préfecture Ensemble immobilier Hôpital du Saint-Esprit Maison, 13 rue de la Comédie Maison, 17 rue Neuve Maison, 19 rue Neuve Maison, 21 place Jeanne-d'Arc Maison, 21 rue du Président-Kennedy Maison, 25 place Jeanne-d'Arc Maison, 3 place Carrière Maison, 3 rue Saint-Nicolas Maison, 7 rue Saint-Nicolas Maison, 8 place Jeanne-d'Arc Maison, actuellement école Maison, située à Ronceux Monument aux enfants de l'arrondissement morts pour la patrie en 1870

11 more, named only by their kind

11 more are named in the list only by their kind: 10 houses (maisons) and 1 other, most from the 18th century. The 10 with an address are in the list above, by it.

15th c.1

16th c.1

18th c.8

undated1

See all 27 on the map

What’s protected

Most of Neufchâteau’s monuments are houses and homes

Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.

Houses & homes14

Religious buildings7

Public & civic3

Tombs & cemeteries1

Bridges & engineering1

Houses & homes: 14 of 27 monuments (52%). 7 are religious buildings, 5 of them classé.

Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once. 1 has no domain on the list.

How old

How old Neufchâteau’s monuments are

Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.

Prehistory & Antiquity to the 4th c.0

Middle Ages 5th–15th c.6

16th to 18th century Renaissance to Revolution17

19th century 1801–19002

20th century and later since 19010

6 of 25 dated monuments have parts from before 1500. The oldest dated: Église Saint-Nicolas (12th–15th c.). 2 monuments have no date on the list.

When protected

Over half of Neufchâteau’s monuments were protected in 2000

Monuments by the year they were first protected.

2000 · 15

1900192019401960198020002020

First protected, in 1908: Croix de chemin, Église Saint-Christophe and Église Saint-Nicolas. 15 were protected in 2000 alone. 1 has been added since 2011.

Age of homes

15% of homes in Neufchâteau were built before 1919

Main homes by when they were finished, beside the median compared French town (the tick).

15%

Before 1919

8.8%

1919–45

28%

1946–70

31%

1971–90

9.3%

1991–2005

7.7%

2006 on

NeufchâteauMedian compared French town

15% of its main homes were built before 1919; the median compared French town has 7.4%. More of them were finished between 1971 and 1990 than in any other period (31%).

INSEE, census 2023: main homes (résidences principales) only; second homes and empty homes aren’t dated.

Born before 1900

16 people born in Neufchâteau before 1900

Their lives on one line.

Dominique-François Rivard

François Couhey

Jean-Claude Cherrier

Nicolas François Roussel d'Hurbal

Joseph Louis d'Arbois de Jubainville

Christophe Doublat

Pierre-Simon d'Alsace de Hénin-Liétard

Claude Joseph de Cherrier

François Costé

Véridique Najean

Claude Claudot

Henry Provensal

Lionel des Rieux

Louis Crussard

Jules Dhotel

Georges Corroy

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Nicolas François Roussel d'Hurbal1763–1849 · French General during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wa…

Dominique-François Rivard1697–1778 · French mathematician and philosopher

François Couhey1752–1821 · French politician

Jean-Claude Cherrier1752–1823 · French politician

Joseph Louis d'Arbois de Jubainville1764–1803 · French general

Christophe Doublat1768–1840 · French politician

Pierre-Simon d'Alsace de Hénin-Liétard1772–1825 · French politician

Claude Joseph de Cherrier1785–1872 · French historian

Everyone born in Neufchâteau Birthplaces from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia.

Towns its size

Neufchâteau has the most monuments of 41 towns its size

Compared French towns of 6,700 to 6,800 residents, by historic monuments.

Neufchâteau27

Luxeuil-les-Bains17

Moëlan-sur-Mer10

Saint-Jean-d'Angély10

#1 of 41for monuments per resident (40 per 10,000). Most per resident: Neufchâteau, Luxeuil-les-Bains and Moëlan-sur-Mer.

The median town of these has 2. 9 of the 41 have none.

Neighbors

Historic monuments in the towns around Neufchâteau

Town	Residents	Monuments	Classé	Protected area
Neufchâteau	6,732	27	9	Yes
Contrexéville	2,923	2	0	—
Vittel	4,780	9	0	—

In brief

Neufchâteau in brief

For its size, Neufchâteau has more historic monuments than 99% of compared French towns. All told, the list holds 27 historic monuments, 9 of them classé, including Croix de chemin. Its old center has been a secteur sauvegardé since 1999. No town its size has more historic monuments: it leads the 41 nearest in population.

Of its homes, 15% were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town. Église Saint-Christophe sits at the heart of it all, with 4 of the town’s classé monuments within 400 m. In 2018 the Mission Patrimoine picked Église Saint-Nicolas as a monument in danger to save.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Monuments historiques. France protects buildings at two levels. Classé, the higher (about a third of the list), means any work needs the State’s permission; inscrit means work must be declared to the State in advance. The Culture ministry’s Mérimée base lists every protected building, and this page counts them.
Partly protected. Many entries protect part of a building only (its façades and roofs, a staircase, a painted room). Each counts as one monument, like a fully protected one.
Where a monument is counted. In the commune named on its protection, moved to today’s commune where communes have since merged. A monument listed for several communes counts in each.
Sites patrimoniaux remarquables. Since 2016 France’s protected historic areas (the former secteurs sauvegardés, ZPPAUP and AVAP) share one name. Inside one, building work follows the area’s plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
What isn’t here. Protected objects (furniture, organs, paintings), old buildings with no protection, UNESCO World Heritage listings and labels such as “Plus Beaux Villages de France” aren’t on this list, so this page doesn’t count them.
No History Grade yet. Everything on this page is described, not graded: France’s History Grade isn’t built yet.

Questions about the history of Neufchâteau

How many historic monuments are there in Neufchâteau?

The Culture ministry lists 27 historic monuments in Neufchâteau: 9 classé and 18 inscrit.

Which monuments in Neufchâteau are classé?

9, among them Église Saint-Nicolas, Église Saint-Christophe, Hôtel de ville, Croix de chemin, Vieux pont sur la Frezelle en amont de la Grande-Rue and Maison des Goncourt.

How old are the monuments of Neufchâteau?

The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from the 12th century.

Is Neufchâteau a protected historic area?

Yes: part of Neufchâteau has been a site patrimonial remarquable since 1999.

When were monuments in Neufchâteau first protected?

The first in 1908, the latest in 2012.

How old are the homes in Neufchâteau?

15% of its main homes were built before 1919 (median compared French town: 7.4%).

France has no History Grade yet: this page describes, it doesn’t grade.

Sources: Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée base on POP (immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques), October 2026 · Ministère de la Culture, sites patrimoniaux remarquables, October 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (main homes by build period) · Wikidata and Wikipedia (people born here) · Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (photos of the monuments, each with its own credit and license) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).

Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.