Fenffe Castle

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Le château en bref

Fenffe Castle, in the hamlet of Fenffe (municipality of Houyet, province of Namur), is a castle farm whose present form dates from the late sixteenth century. The seat of a lordship from the fourteenth century, it was occupied in 1317 by the de Finfe family before passing to the de Waha family, then, through successive inheritances, to lords including Lambertine de Croÿ, Charles de Poitiers and the baron de Rouvroy de Pamele, who was also lord of Lavaux-Sainte-Anne. Sold in 1794 to Théodore Delvaux, a physician from Rochefort, it remained in that family until 1891, when Leopold II bought it in order to unite the estates of Ciergnon and Ardenne; it was then incorporated into the Royal Donation established in 1903. Abandoned and ruined after the Second World War, damaged by a fire in 1966, it was restored in 1967–1968 to serve as a secondary residence for Prince Albert and Princess Paola. The ensemble includes a garden, a terrace overlooking a pond, a park of old oak trees, a chapel dating from 1717 and, between the castle and the road, a low building flanked by two towers which houses, among other things, a dovecote.