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Château de Goé, in the hamlet of Goé-Village (commune of Limbourg), is a country house set in a wooded park, somewhat apart from the village. It is built of rubble sandstone and topped with a wooden-shingled façade and a central turret. The seigneury passed in 1649 to Jean-Baptiste de Caldenborg. A modest manor house, probably built under Henry Blanche, existed at the beginning of the eighteenth century; it was enlarged and remodelled between 1725 and 1732 under H.G.J. van den Steen. In the nineteenth century the façades were refreshed and the entrance altered. From 16 to 18 November 1847, King Leopold I stayed here, as recorded by an inscription on stone. The complex includes a courtyard bordered by the gatekeeper's house and former stables, an eighteenth-century wrought-iron entrance gate, a partly sunken ice house dated 1759 on its lintel (with a reused Gothic doorway), and, on a wooded mound near Béthane, a ruined nineteenth-century neo-Gothic chapel known locally as ‘casse-bouteilles’.