Brouckmans Castle

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Le château en bref

Brouckmans Castle stands in the centre of Hoeselt (Dorpsstraat 18), within the former Ter Borch estate. According to the Flemish protection order of 29 March 2001, the site is very old: the moats date back to the Liège lordship of Holstraete, mentioned in 1357. The water castle of Ter Borch and its Bethaniatoren, dated 1622 and the only corner tower still standing, belong to the country houses built by wealthy burghers in the seventeenth century. In the mid-eighteenth century, a branch of the Brouckmans family had the classicising château that bears its name built on an adjoining plot (1756); only the residence and the gatehouse survive, and they retain an interior decor from the eighteenth century that is fairly authentic. The two estates, united by inheritance, were sold in 1897 to the Sisters of Providence, who established an orphanage and then a secondary school there; the property passed in 2010 to a property company. The remains of Ter Borch and the eighteenth-century buildings have been protected as a monument since 2001.