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Le château en bref
Groenendaal Castle, a late and erroneous form of Croenendael, stands at Waltwilder (Bilzen, Limburg), in the heart of the protected cultural landscape of Groenendaal-Zangerhei. It occupies the site of a large fief of the County of Looz which, together with Hoelbeek and Jonckholt, formed a single fief held by the lords of Jonckholt. At the end of the 14th century, the estate passed to Aleidis van Jonckholt, wife of Godenoel van Elderen; in 1477 it went to the Lamboy family, one member of which, Willem III, a 17th-century military commander, added "de Croenendael" to his name, and then to the de Grady family, before being acquired in 1861 by Baron Emile de Rosen de Borgharen. The core of the castle dates from the mid-17th century; a Classicist remodelling from the third quarter of the 18th century gave the south wing seven bays over two storeys and a projecting central section with a triangular, heraldic pediment. This U-shaped brick castle, partly surrounded by moats, is associated with a castle farm of Meuse origin and surrounded by an English-style landscape park. Separated from the farm during a first sale in 1992, it underwent interior renovation in 1993 entrusted to Jan des Bouvrie and remains today a private property.
