En un regard
Le château en bref
Rooi Castle stands at Neerrepen (Tongeren), in the Fonteinbeek valley, somewhat apart from the hamlet of Mulken. The place name (Roye, Rode or Campo Rodensi) is first cited in 1287, in a deed of the chapter of Our Lady in Tongeren. According to the Flemish inventory of parks and gardens, an initial residence was probably built in the fourteenth century on an estate first held by the lords of Mulken; the present castle, dating from the sixteenth century and partly from the seventeenth, retains an arrangement of upper court and lower court (opperhof–neerhof). It comprises a main residential block and two wings forming a U around a courtyard, on the edge of a pond, while a fourteenth-century flint wall is thought to be the oldest surviving remnant. Carved coats of arms of the Van Wezeren and de Hamal families adorn the gateway of the square farmhouse. Among the successive owners were the Van Wezeren family (1616), de Fraisne (1690), de Bussy (1703) and de Voet (1792).