Bommershoven Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Bommershoven Castle, also known as Naveau de Marteau, stands at 59 Alfonsstraat, near the church of the hamlet of Bommershoven (Looz, Limburg), on the highest point of the surrounding area. A rococo country house built in 1759–1761 for Marcel-Gérard Magnée, whose portrait hangs in the great dining room, it originally had three separate wings, as shown on the Ferraris map. In the nineteenth century, an outbuilding disappeared; what remains is an L-shaped house in red-painted brick, two storeys high, under a slate mansard roof with dormer windows, with a five-bay façade in double-storey form, a plinth and limestone surrounds, and a three-sided projecting bay on the garden side. The original rococo interior retains stucco fireplaces, Delft tiles, an octagonal salon decorated with oil paintings by Italian artists, and a substantial library. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the service wing was converted, a U-shaped courtyard was built to the south, and the park reached its present size; it combines formal and landscape styles. The château, together with its park and outbuildings, has been protected as a monument since 10 December 2003.