Nieuwenhoven Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Nieuwenhoven Castle (Engelbamp 55, Saint-Trond, Limburg) is a former ‘speelhof’: from the end of the 13th century, it was the summer residence of the abbots of Saint-Trond Abbey, who lived there permanently in the 18th century. Fortified in 1329, rebuilt in 1340 and then enlarged in 1521–1525, it today forms a brick complex divided into two courtyards: an L-shaped château with a classicising façade from the second half of the 18th century, built under Abbot Jozef van Herck and flanked by two towers, and a farm built under Abbot Hubert Germeys (stones dated 1617 and 1623). Sold after the French invasion, the estate was remodelled in the English neo-Gothic style in the 19th century, and a wing burned down in 1932. The whole, together with its neo-Gothic chapel across the road, its pond and its still-preserved landscape, is listed as designated architectural heritage (designation in force since 1 February 2018).