Thy-le-Château Castle, locally known as Château de Thy-le-Château, lies in the village of the same name, in the province of Namur in the Wallonia region in Belgium.

Thy-le-Château Castle was first mentioned at the end of the 12th century. Then it was owned by Henry IV, 'the Blind', Count of Namur. However, legend has it that the castle was built by Jean, a local lord, who had partaken in the taking of the city of Tyre during the Crusades in 1124 and who built Thy-le-Château Castle according to the plan of Tyre after his return.

In 1188 Thy-le-Château Castle was sieged by the armed troops of Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut, and taken by force. In 1190, Baldwin presented the castle to his brother William, called 'Saint-Sauve'.

In later centuries the castle passed through the hands of several families; de Neuville, de Werchin, de Barbençon-Jeumont, de Melun, de Ligne and de Croÿ.

In 1790 Thy-le-Château Castle stood empty and was burned by revolutionaries and fell to ruin. In 1830 the ruins were bought by the Hanseval family and used as barns. From then on several buildings were built against and within the ruins. In 1870 the main building was used as a brewery.

In 1910 the castle was bought by Louis Piret, a local ironmaster. In 1920 he started to restore the castle back to its medieval appearance. The newer buildings were torn down and archaeological excavations were carried out, the findings being used as a guideline to give the castle its medieval appearance. The restoration was completed in 1939.

On May 14, 1940 however the German air force bombed a French military convoy that had halted near the castle. The castle was destroyed in the process. So, after World War II ended, Louis Piret again started to rebuilt Thy-le-Château Castle. It is the result of that restoration that we see today.

At present Thy-le-Château Castle is private property and is used for cultural activities.

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Het kasteel van Ham-sur-Heure is een kasteel gelegen in het dorp Ham-sur-Heure in de provincie Henegouwen.

Geschiedenis

In de elfde eeuw behoorde het kasteel toe aan de familie van Florennes, daarna de familie Morialme, vervolgens aan Gwijde van Dampierre, het Huis Condé (1259), de heren van Edingen (1402), het Huis Luxemburg, de familie van Fosseux en de hertogen van Bourgondië .

In 1473 tot 1941 was het kasteel eigendom van het Huis Merode. Vervolgens kwam het door vererving aan het Huis Oultremont. Het werd in 1952 verkocht aan de gemeente van Ham-sur-Heure en is nu het gemeentehuis van Ham-sur-Heure-Nalinnes.



Kasteel van Ham-sur-Heure

Castle of Tarcienne is a castle on a slight hilltop in the western portion of the Walloon village of Tarcienne, in the municipality of Walcourt, Namur Province, Belgium.

It was initially constructed (1674) for Charles-Ignace de Colins. Its style was Louis XIV.

At present the castle is occupied by Eric Rosens, who is working to restore it to its previous state. It is not presently open to the public.

Castle of Tarcienne


Acoz (en wallon Åcoz) est un village de la province de Hainaut, situé immédiatement au nord de Gerpinnes, en Région wallonne de Belgique. Sis au confluent du ruisseau homonyme (Acoz) et de l'Hanzinne qui se jette dans la Sambre à Châtelet, le village était une commune à part entière avant la fusion des communes de 1977.

Patrimoine

Le château

Article détaillé : Château d'Acoz.
Le château est un édifice en pierre calcaire situé au milieu d’un parc dans la vallée de la Hanzinne qui alimente les douves. Du vaste quadrilatère fortifié remontant à la fin du xvie ou au début du xviie siècle ne subsistent qu’une tour isolée du nord-ouest et deux ailes à l’est et au sud, fortement transformées aux xviiie et xixe siècles.

L'église Saint-Martin

Édifiée en 1844 l’église porte sur le fronton de la porte principale le chronogramme : «Christo Virginique Martinoque condita fuit ut subjectis faveant nobis». Ce qui signifie: elle fut édifiée en l'honneur du Christ, de la Vierge et de Martin afin qu'ils nous soient favorables, à nous qui leur sommes soumis.

La Tour octavienne

La tour carrée ou ermitage vertical fut bâtie en 1875 par l'écrivain Octave Pirmez. C'est là qu'il écrivit Les feuillées et Heures de solitude. Plutôt romantique et sans style bien précis, elle a des aspects de donjon fortifié du xiie siècle allié à un pigeonnier du xviiie siècle. En ruines présentant un danger pour la sécurité des usagers, elle a dû être démolie.

La marche Saint-Roch et Saint-Frégo
Il s'agit de l'une des marches de l'Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse et a lieu le dimanche suivant le 15 août.

Cette marche fait partie des quinze marches de l'Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse qui ont été reconnues en décembre 2012 comme chef-d'œuvre du patrimoine oral et immatériel de l'humanité par l'UNESCO.

L'origine de la marche remonte au siècle dernier. En 1866, une épidémie de choléra répandit la terreur dans la région et la famille Scieur, très éprouvée, avait érigé une petite chapelle dédiée à saint Roch, patron des pestiférés. Quelques années plus tard, vers 1870, on décida de rendre hommage à saint Roch et on lui associa saint Frégo, qui lui jouissait d'une grande vénération, étant le protecteur des petits enfants contre la « maladie du carreau » — actuellement, on peut découvrir dans le fond de l'église paroissiale d'Acoz-Centre la statue du saint ornée de quelques paires de petits souliers déposées là par des parents reconnaissants. La marche était née et une tradition allait s'instaurer.

Chaque année, le rendez-vous est donné à tous ceux qui veulent perpétuer cette procession. Le dimanche à 11 heures, la procession quitte l'église d'Acoz escortée par deux compagnies. Lausprelle, habillée exclusivement en costumes du Premier Empire, ouvre le cortège. Elle est suivie de la compagnie d'Acoz qui elle est revêtue de costumes du Second Empire, à l'exception du peloton des jeunes qui préfère l'habit de grenadier du Premier Empire. La compagnie d'Acoz est accompagnée par la fanfare du village. La procession fait son entrée dans le hameau de Lausprelle vers 13 heures. À 15 heures, elle repart pour assister aux vêpres chantés en l'église Saint-Léon. Après cet office, Lausprelle rejoint le quartier de la gare d'Acoz pour la rentrée solennelle. Vers 18 heures, les deux compagnies entrent dans la cour intérieure du château Pirmez pour y tirer des salves. C'est ensuite le retour en l'église d'Acoz où est célébré un salut. Le lundi à 9 h 30, une messe militaire est célébrée tant au centre qu'à Lausprelle. Ces cérémonies sont suivies de salves d'honneur et d'évolutions dans les quartiers jusqu'au soir. Le cassage du verre de la compagnie d'Acoz a lieu le dernier samedi de juin à 19 heures et celui de la compagnie de Lausprelle le lundi de saint Roch et saint Frégo vers 22 heures.

Kasteel van Acoz

Fosteau Castle (French: Château du Fosteau) is a castle in Leers-et-Fosteau in the municipality of Thuin, province of Hainaut, in Belgium.

History

The first castle at Fosteau was erected in the 14th century. In approximately 1380 Wauthier de Semousies became owner when Duchess Joan of Brabant gave it to him. His successors were the lords of Zwenne, de Marotte, de Henry and de Jamblines. They built several other buildings around the castle. The hall is Gothic.

The castle became a protected monument in 1979. Since 1980, it has housed an exhibition of antique furniture. Everything within the castle is also available for sale.

Fosteau Castle


The Florennes Castle (formerly the Château de Beaufort) in Florennes, Namur, Belgium, is a castle that dates back to the 9th century, although the most of the modern structure is much more recent.

Early history

The castle is located on a rocky ridge that stretches westward from the center of the old town of Florennes. There are early records of construction of a wooden castle in Florennes in 842. In 944 Count Eilbert replaced the wooden building with a stone castle surrounded by walls. Eilbert, lord of Florennes, died on 28 March 977. His daughter Alpaïde de Hoegarde (c. 921–986) married Godefroi de Juliers, a Count of Hainaut, and their sons Godefroi and then Arnoul inherited Florennes. The town and castle, owned by Arnoul's grandson Godefroi IV de Florennes (c. 1010 – 1080), became a fief of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in 1070. The powerful Rumigny-Florennes family held the castle as vassals of Liège until the late 13th century.

In 1281 Isabelle de Rumigny, who had inherited the castle, married Thibaut of Lorraine, lord of Neufchateau. Thibaut was a warrior prince, and fought in the wars between the kings of France, the emperors of Germany and other potentates. He was in the ranks of the French at the disastrous Battle of Courtrai on 9 June 1302. Thibaut became Duke of Lorraine on 31 December 1303, and had to fight a revolt of his subjects. At one point he lost control of the castle to the prince-bishop of Liège, but it was restored on 6 June 1307.

The castle was badly damaged during a siege in 1408. Starting in 1417 Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, undertook work that included building the terrace and, in 1425, laying out a 20 hectares (49 acres) park. A document from 1420 states that the people of Surice, Mazée, Vodelée, Soulme, Omezée, Villers-en-Fagne, Roly, Neuville, Vodecée, Villers-le-Gambon, Franchimont, Corenne and Anthée were required to mount guard over the castle. The castle was damaged again in a siege in 1430. Around 1465 it was said that the castle of the town of Florine was fortified with ditches, bulwarks and other defensive works. These walls still existed in 1517, and the castle was accessed over a drawbridge. The house of Lorraine owned the castle until 1556.

Later events

From 1556 to 1771 the castle was owned by the House of Glymes-Jodoigne. On 14 December 1570 Jean de Glymes, Baron of Florennes and Governor of Philippeville, and his wife Reneé de Vaudemont wrote a will leaving their eldest son Charles de Glymes the land and baronetcy of Florennes. Jean de Glymes died in the castle on 2 July 1575.

The Queen of Navarre, Margaret of Valois, sought refuge in the castle in 1577. She reached the lower court of the castle, but the wife of the lord of the castle refused her admittance in her husband's absence. Don John of Austria, hearing that the queen was staying at the castle, sent 300 men to cut the road and capture the castle. Thinking the queen was within the castle, they camped some way away, planning to take it the next day. The situation was serious but the queen's pleas for sanctuary went unheeded. Finally Charles de Glymes arrived. He reproved his wife and granted the queen admittance. He then provided an escort back to Paris.

The castle passed to the Beaufort-Spontin family in 1771. In 1794 the French revolutionaries seized the castle from its owner, the Duke of Beaufort-Spontin, who had emigrated. In 1800 the municipality of Florennes declared that the castle was a national asset and could not be sold. The Beaufort-Spontins regained the property after the restoration of the monarchy. In 1893, the Beaufort-Spontin family sold the castle and its outbuildings. It was resold to the French Jesuits in 1902, after religious schools had been suppressed in France. They used it for their Saint-Jean Berchmans college, and in 1905 built a novitiate at the southern end of the park.

During World War I the castle was used as a hospital by the French army and then by the German army. The castle was occupied by the German army again in 1940. In 1942 it was transferred to the air force, who installed an air command post in the novitiate, which was destroyed by fire when they left in 1944. The castle was then occupied by American troops.

In 1950 the Jesuits sold the castle and part of the park to the Missions Seminary (Séminaire des Missions) for use as a free girls school. For the last thirty years the Missions Seminary has leased the castle to the Municipality of Florennes, who in turn have rented it to the Justice of the Peace and the Music Academy. The process of registering the castle buildings and the park with the Institut du Patrimoine as a Wallon Heritage site were initiated in May 2004. Some of the building could continue to be used for educational purposes, while other parts would be restored. The Heritage Department would cover 60% of the costs of restoration.

Kasteel van Florennes

History

Origins of the château can be traced back to the 17th century, around 1635, when the Honoré family builds a castle on the Sambre river bank. The place had formerly been occupied by a seigneurial manor which was destroyed on 21 July 1554.

In 1667, the unfinished Spanish fortress of Charleroy is captured by Louis XIV's troops during the War of Devolution. As the castle in Marchienne was located in neutral territory (under authority of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège), it was used as a hospital for both French and Spanish soldiers.

In 1695, the castle is bought by Guillaume de Bilquin, a wealthy forge owner, who completes and enhances it. In 1717, his daughter, Marie-Agnès Bilquin, marries Jean-Louis Cartier, son of the general treasurer of the prince-bishop of Liège. As such, the castle becomes the property of the Cartier de Marchienne family.

In 1740, the castle hosts Remacle Le Loup, a famous draftsman from the Liège region. It is severely damaged by a fire in 1932, and bought over by the municipality of Marchienne-au-Pont in 1938, ending more than two centuries of ownership by the Cartier family.

Marguerite Yourcenar, a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, and the first woman elected to the Académie française, is the daughter of Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne, from the Cartier family related to the Cartier castle. She visited the castle in Marchienne-au-Pont in 1956, and mentions her Cartier de Marchienne ancestry and the castle in her 1974 memoir Dear Departed: A Memoir (French: Souvenirs pieux).

The Cartier castle was listed on 21 August 1980. It underwent restoration in phases between 1986 and 2001 (helped by ERDF), after having been left in a sorry condition (infested by dry rot).

The castle today hosts a public library on the ground floor (Bibliothèque Marguerite Yourcenar), and administrative services of the Walloon region on the first floor. The library has a section dedicated to books in Turkish language.

The courtyard is equipped with benches and is publicly accessible as part of the Marchienne-au-Pont municipal park. The castle wing which was located on the southern side of the courtyard has been demolished to create an entrance for the De Cartier station of the Charleroi metro. At the tip of the western wing, a stone porch is adorned with the arms of the Bilquin-Baillencourt family, and a 1699 date inscription. Similarly, the lintel above the northern wing door shows a scalloped key with the arms of the Cartier family. Other demolished features include a barnyard where the Marchienne-au-Pont municipal swimming pool now stands.

A 19th century grain elevator in neo-renaissance style can be seen on the Sambre embankment.

Cartier Castle

Le château de Fontaine-l'Évêque également connu sous le nom de château Bivort se situe à Fontaine-l'Évêque, ville belge, dans la province de Hainaut.

Histoire
La seigneurie de Fontaine, située à la frontière du Hainaut et de Liège, relève de la famille Hennin-Liétard jusqu'en 1596. Reconstruit en grande partie après 1554, le château conserve néanmoins son enceinte du xiiie siècle et la chapelle gothique.

Le château passe ensuite par plusieurs maisons. Vers 1674, Michel-Luc Camille de Rodoan construit le portail et la façade actuelle de la chapelle. L'aile résidentielle des xvie et xviie siècles est prolongée dans la première moitié du xviiie siècle. Le domaine est ruiné à la fin du xviiie siècle.

Il est racheté en 1864 par Clément Bivort de la Saudée qui complète l'aile d'habitation, puis par la commune de Fontaine-l'Évêque en 1946.

En 1869, l'architecte Auguste Cador entreprend une restauration, mêlée d'esprit néo-médiéval, épurée lors des travaux menés en 1954 par Simon Brigode.

Kasteel van Fontaine-l'Évêque

Au XIIe siècle, on trouve mention d’une villa Toscias qui reprend vraisemblablement le nom d’une ancienne villa romaine.

Au XIVe siècle, il est fait mention de Toséee, Tosée (1315), Thozées (1330), Thosée (1332). Au XVe siècle, la graphie de Thozée apparaît (l8 juin 1472, Archives des Henry de Faveaux). Comme la ville voisine de Fosses, Thozée a longtemps fait partie de la Principauté de Liège. Avec la commune de Mettet et le village de Scry, elle constituait une seule entité sous le nom de Communauté de Mettet-Thozée et Scry. Celle-ci était partagée en deux seigneuries : celle de Mettet-Thozée et celle de Scry. Jusqu’à la fin de l’ancien Régime, la seigneurie de Mettet-Thozée fut presqu’en permanence placée sous l’autorité des Princes-évêques de Liège. Elle était le siège d’une haute Cour échevinale de justice.

L’architecture du château de Thozée

Les bâtiments actuels sont relativement récents. La construction, entamée en l708, transformait d’anciennes fondations remontant au XVe siècle. On ne connaît pas la physionomie des bâtiments avant le XVIIIe siècle. 

Dans Le Patrimoine monumental de la Belgique, (Liège, 1975, volume 5, tome 1, p. 438), nous en trouvons la description suivante :

" Construction néo-classique en briques et pierres bleues sur soubassement de moellons, dont le plan en U reprend sans doute une disposition ancienne comme le suggère à la face arrière de l’aile sud une porte datée de 1703 (Erreur! La date exacte est 1708) sur le linteau droit. Toitures d’ardoises. Disposée autour d’une cour irrégulière, ferme en moellons de grès et de calcaire autrefois chaulée, composée d’étables au nord du logis et d’une grange en long au sud. A gauche de l’habitation, étables transformées, qui remontent sans doute au XVIIIe siècle.. Accès à l’ouest, par un porche en

Le style actuel du château de Thozée se rapproche de celui des gentilhommières françaises, avec ses bâtiments de ferme accolés au corps de logis.

Dans Le Patrimoine monumental de la Belgique, (Liège, 1975, volume 5, tome 1, p. 438), nous en trouvons la description suivante :"Construction néo-classique en briques et pierres bleues sur soubassement de moellons, dont le plan en U reprend sans doute une disposition ancienne comme le suggère à la face arrière de l’aile sud une porte datée de 1703 sur le linteau droit. Toitures d’ardoises. Disposée autour 

d’une cour irrégulière, ferme en moellons de grès et de calcaire autrefois chaulée, composée d’étables au nord du logis et d’une grange en long au sud. A gauche de l’habitation, étables transformées, qui remontent sans doute au XVIIIe siècle.. Accès à l’ouest, par un porche en briques et pierre bleue aux armes des Faveaux ".



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Kasteel van Thozée in Mettet

Farciennes Castle (French: Château de Farciennes) is a derelict 17th-century castle in Farciennes in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. The present building stands on the site of an earlier castle of the 14th century.

History

The first record of the castle at Farciennes dates from 1344, when Adolf van der Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liège, gave Hendrik of Farciennes permission to restore and strengthen his castle. On 23 September 1408 the united armies of John III, Duke of Bavaria (John the Pitiless), at that time Prince-Bishop of Liège, and his brother William II, Duke of Bavaria, defeated the rebellious citizens of Liège in battle on the plain of Russon. The victors ordered that the strongholds in the area be dismantled, which included the castle of Farciennes.

The remains of the stronghold changed hands several times until Charles Albert de Longueval became owner. He ordered the demolition of what was left of the medieval structure and erected on the same spot a new aristocratic castle in the year 1630. However, he never saw it finished, as he died before its completion in 1676.
Marie-Emmanuelle de Longueval, Countess of Bouquoi, married Albert-Maximilien, Count de Fours, and so the castle passed to the de Fours family. It was badly damaged by pillaging armies during the French Revolution. Count François de Fours was however able to keep the castle out of the French hands with a sales trick.

In 1809 the Count de Fours, the last lord of Farciennes, sold the castle to Gabriel Scarsez, a lawyer from Mons, but he lacked the means to maintain an estate like Farciennes in good condition, so the building gradually began to decay. Finally, large parts of the surrounding park were sold and factories built on the land. The castle started to show cracks as a result of the coal mines causing the ground below to subside. The building was rented out and was turned into a starch factory. In the meantime the beautiful interior was plundered and the contents scattered throughout the world.

In 1860 the castle was turned into a farm. A part was set aside for living quarters and some of the big ballrooms housed the cows and pigs.

Neglect and ill-treatment continued unchecked, even though the castle was classed as a structure of national importance in 1926, until eventually, in 2008, the town of Farciennes bought what remained of the building, which was only a skeleton of what was once was a beautiful estate. Large parts of the building have collapsed and despite the there is nothing that can save the castle from inevitable destruction.

Farciennes Castle


Trazegnies Castle is a castle located in Trazegnies, Courcelles in the Belgian province of Hainaut.

History
Trazegnies was originally a powerful independent seigneurie on the edges of the Duchy of Brabant, the County of Hainaut and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and was ruled by a separate dynasty. The original castle was built by Gilles I in the 11th Century but was almost completely destroyed in 1554 by the armies of Henry II of France during the Italian War of 1551–1559. Subsequently rebuilt, a corps de logis was added to the castle by Gillion-Othon de Trazegnies in the Louis XIII style in the 17th Century.

The extinction of the Trazegnies dynasty led to the sale of the castle to a coal mine which partitioned off its land, leaving the castle itself to the Belgian state. It had become derelict by 1926 and suffered severe damage from subsidence as a result of underground mining. However, a civic association called the "Friends of Trazegnies Castle" (Les Amis du Château de Trazegnies) successfully opposed its destruction and began a gradual programme of restoration with the support of the Walloon Region. The castle is currently open to the public on designated days.