This neogothic complex is located on a steep rock on the right bank of the Lesse. At this strategic point, where there was once a ford in the river, a fortress was built as early as the eleventh century. This military stronghold was destroyed four times, first by the French and then by the Austrians. Today, only a keep and thirteen meters of walls remain from the original building, which in some places is more than three meters thick.
In the mid-nineteenth century, what had become a total ruin was sold to Baron Alfred Brugmann, a banker. When his son Frédéric Brugmann de Walzin inherited the castle, he had it renovated in 1932 in Maasland style. This is still how it looks today. You won't get to see the interior of this private property, but you can walk around the gardens, designed by Louis Julien Breydel, the landscape architect who also designed the Botanical Garden in Brussels.
Source: André Grosemans - Nieuwsblad
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