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Fort de Joux

French castle
Organization castle Q1090706

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
castle, fort, military museum[4][5]
Country
France[3]
Official website
www.chateaudejoux.com[8]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.873°, 6.374°[7]
Short name
Joux[13]
Architectural style
Gothic art[6]
Described by source
Topographia Circuli Burgundici, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9][10]
Heritage designation
classified historical monument, Wikidata item[11][12]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
La Cluse-et-Mijoux[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en Chateau de Joux en Fort de Joux en Château de Joux cs Fort de Joux de Fort de Joux el Φορ ντε Ζου fr château de joux fr château de Joux he פור דה ז'ו ja ジューの要塞 ja ジュー城 ja ジュー要塞 nl Fort de Joux nl Kasteel van Joux pl Fort de Joux ru Фор-де-Жу tr Joux Kalesi zh 茹城堡
🔖 Identifiers · 13
VIAF cluster ID
248742678
GND ID
4740633-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Fort de Joux 02.jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12063758n
Chemins de mémoire ID
chateau-de-joux
Fondation du patrimoine ID
chateau-de-joux
Freebase ID
/m/05sf1v
GeoNames ID
6697855
Kulturenvanteri monument ID
348543
Mérimée ID
PA00101629
OpenStreetMap way ID
125735941
Vikidia article ID
fr:Fort_de_Joux
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WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJrwTqHD89vt3p3pbX7rbd

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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Paris 2026-09-26 S/CSTL · FR GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
← Place of detention 5
Heinrich von Kleist, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Toussaint Louverture, Andre Rigaud, Jean Baptiste Pierre Constant, Count of Suzannet
Instance of 3
castle, fort, military museum
Architectural style 1
Gothic art
Country 1
France
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
La Cluse-et-Mijoux
People who died here 1
Toussaint Louverture
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Summary

Fort de Joux is a castle[1].

Related Entities

France Heinrich von Kleist Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Toussaint Louverture

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Base Mérimée. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Base Mérimée. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . Base Mérimée. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Base Mérimée. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'nl', 'simple', 'zh']
    GND ID → 4740633-1
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 18w ago · Vicarage · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → France
    Category for the view from the item → Category:Views from Fort de Joux
    Short name → {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'Joux'}
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → La Cluse-et-Mijoux
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39281|batch #39281]]"
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