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Le château en bref
Sipernau Castle (Sipernau 2-10, Elen, Dilsen-Stokkem) occupies a site first mentioned in 732 as Scripnasium, in the will of Saint Adela, abbess of Pfalzel, as a villa on the Meuse. In the Middle Ages it passed to Abbot Adeldardus of Corbie, then to laymen. In 1179 it came into the possession of the Premonstratensians of Heilissem, who sold the curtis in 1259 to the knight Waltrekin del Wege. The Buman family and then the van Mopertingen family (1366) turned it into a fortified farm, described as a castrum in 1446. In 1550 it passed by marriage to the van Rhoe van Obsinnich family. Jan Willem van der Heyden bought it in 1710. Thomas Cornelis de la Marck de Leur, its owner in 1729, had the old castle demolished to build the present edifice. Alexander de Lilien acquired it in 1781. Placed under sequestration in 1798 and returned in 1802, it was remodelled in the English Neo-Gothic style by Theodoor Olislagers (1845-1861). The Neo-Romanesque chapel dates from 1889 (H. Powis de Tenbossche). After 1945, the estate was broken up and its park disappeared beneath housing developments.