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Le château en bref
Remaks Castle, in Molenstede (Diest), is a neo-traditional brick and sandstone château built in 1909 for Adolf Verstappen, about a hundred metres south-west of the estate's historic farm. This Remakshoeve, the core of the property, is mentioned as early as 1610; its name derives from Martinus Ramax, who bought it in 1765. It appears on the Ferraris map and, in the old cadastre, under the designation ‘speelhuis’. In 1869 it was sold to Baron Eugène Zerezo de Tejada. The new castle is distinguished by a bay window on the north façade, which is blind and faces the park, combining masonry on the ground floor with timber on the upper floor. The farm buildings, altered several times, now have an appearance dominated by the nineteenth century. The three-hectare landscape park, roughly a third of which is laid out in the form of a triangle, contains two small ponds, a mound that closes a vista, and several rare trees. The estate has been recognised as built heritage since 2021.