Brakum Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Brakum Castle (Binkomstraat 50, Lubbeek) dates back to the "hof te Roypoorte", a moated farm converted into a castle and country house between 1710 and 1720; in the nineteenth century, A. Wauters counted it among the finest estates in Lubbeek. In 1729, Herman Poringo, professor of theology at Leuven, bought it. Around 1800, the small geometric garden was remodelled in an early landscape style; in the 1830 cadastre, the owner was Henri Sigismond de Liem, mayor of Lubbeek. In 1894, part of the castle was demolished and only the west wing survives. In 1913, the de Néeff family bought the estate, which they still owned at the time of the inventory. The park, extended to around 25 hectares around 1900, is organised around a large elliptical pond, a surviving half of a circular moat and a wooded mound, the "Ronde Bos", with rare ornamental species (Cappadocian maple, Pontic azaleas).