Kasteel de Beauffort, Linden

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Le château en bref

Beauffort Castle, in Linden (Lubbeek, Flemish Brabant), is a symmetrical nine-bay neoclassical château built on a site that had been occupied since the twelfth century by a feudal motte with a private chapel. A country house laid out in 1661–1663 was replaced by a classicising manor house in 1782–1784, which was then enlarged and merged with the older parts around 1870. The estate passed from the lords of Linden to the van Calsteren family, one of the seven patrician families of Leuven, and then, in 1837, to the counts of Beauffort, who originated from Metz. The complex includes an eighteenth-century farm, an octagonal neoclassical funerary chapel (around 1804), a large U-shaped farm (around 1870) and a landscaped park of over 30 hectares laid out around 1880.