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Château de Colonster, in Liège (Sart-Tilman), is a country residence overlooking the Ourthe valley. A lordship of Colonster is attested in the fourteenth century: in 1334, Jean des Prez was its lord. In 1524 the estate passed to Érard de la Marck, then to the Horion family, who retained it until 1787. Maximilien-Henri de Horion (1694–1759) carried out the last major programme of alterations, which gave the château its appearance as an eighteenth-century pleasure residence. After several owners (Louvrex, Hasselbrouck, de Sélys-Longchamp, Allard), Baron Van Zuylen sold the estate to the University of Liège in 1963. A fire ravaged it in 1966; it was restored and adapted by the architects Henri Lacoste and Jean Opdenberg. The façade, roofs, towers, eighteenth-century wrought-iron gate and the salons of the north wing were placed under legal protection in 1981.