En un regard
Le château en bref
Heurne Castle (Heurnestraat 37, Vechmaal, Heers), together with its fortified farmhouse, kitchen garden and park, forms a single ensemble in the hamlet of Sint-Pieters-Heurne. The estate is said to have originated as a fortified farm belonging to the counts of Looz. The documented owners are Herman Vandenborch (1364), Denis van Hinnisdael (1616), and then, by marriage, Jean Bosch († 1693) and his son Mathias. The present farmhouse bears the date 1743 and the arms of the Bosch family, probably built with materials from an older farm. At the beginning of the 19th century, Joseph Gerard Hubert Hermans probably had the neoclassical wing of the castle and the landscape park built. Baron Favereau owned it around 1840–1845; a division took place in 1867 between Leopoldina de Favereau and Baron de Calwaert; in 1900 Lambert-Emile Montalet-Ruyters acquired it, and his family kept it into the 20th century. Abandoned from 1948, the site was sold at the end of the 20th century; the castle is today being gradually restored by its occupants.