Hof ten Hooilaard

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Le château en bref

The Hof ten Hooilaard is an estate in Korbeek-Lo (Oudebaan 79, Bierbeek), on the northern slope of the Molenbeek valley. Around 1740, Theodoris Frantzen, receiver and master of woods for the Duke of Aarschot, acquired it. In 1832 the property belonged to his grandson Lambert Frantzen, who had been ennobled in 1823, and it included an ornamental garden and two ponds. The garden was enlarged to 1.8 hectares in 1850. The ‘lusthuis’ was remodelled in 1914, with the addition of a shed and a greenhouse. On the night of 1 September 1944, the explosion of munitions wagons on the neighbouring railway line severely damaged the main building. The owning Van der Elst family built a villa on the site in 1952. What remains of the old estate is mainly a landscape park of about 6 hectares laid out around two ponds, the 1914 shed with its two round-arched doors, and notable trees, including a variegated pedunculate oak, the largest of its variety in Belgium.