Château d'Ambroos

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Le château en bref

Château d'Ambroos is a modest neoclassical manor house in Hofstade (Zemst), Joseph Wauterslaan. Probably built in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, it belonged in the seventeenth century to the Jesuits of Mechelen, who used it as a country house and retreat, and was converted into a château in the second half of the eighteenth century. After the suppression of the order in 1773, it was acquired by Constant Van den Nieuwenhuysen, a hatter from Mechelen. Joseph-Joachim Poot bought it in 1845 together with the farm and roughly 32 hectares; a restoration (1966–1971) brought to light in the cellars traces of a very ancient Gothic core.