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.

Kasteel van Trazegnies

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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

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

Feluy Castle, locally known as Château-fort de Feluy, lies in the village of the same name, in the province of Hainaut in the Wallonia region in Belgium.

Feluy Castle was built in the 1380's on the orders of Eustache de Bousies, probably on the site of an earlier fortification. In 1489 it was besieged and taken by the troops of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, led by Albert III, Duke of Saxony.

The castle remained however in the hands of the De Bousies family until 1548. Then it went to the Rubempré family through marriage. In 1576 it went to the De Renesse family through inheritance. Because of the damages the castle had suffered during the wars in the 16th century, René de Renesse rebuilt the castle in 1615. The De Renesse family owned Feluy Castle until 1658. Then Feluy Castle went to the De Berghes family through marriage.

During the Franco-Dutch War, in 1674, William III of Orange and his troops camped at the castle before the Battle of Seneffe. During the Nine Years' War the castle was taken multiple times by French troops. In 1692 the Duke of Luxembourg set up headquarters in Feluy Castle and later pillaged it. After that the castle switched hands between the wars' adversaries multiple times.

In 1720 the last of the De Berghes died and Feluy Castle was inherited by the d'Albert family. In 1774 the castle was acquired by the Countess  d'Isendoorn à Blois. By then the castle was devastated by the wars and the soldiers that had been garrisoned there. She had the castle completely rebuilt. From the moated polygonal medieval castle only the gate tower, part of a corner tower and the curtain wall between them remained. She had a new mansion built on the castle island in 1777.

Several other owners followed but by 1972 the castle was in a state of dilapidation. A thorough restoration followed.

At present Feluy Castle is used for cultural purposes and weddings. 


https://www.castles.nl/feluy-castle

Feluy Castle

The castle of Ecaussinnes-Lalaing developed early in the Middle Ages thanks to its strategic position on a rocky promontory overhanging the valley of the Sennette, at the boundaries of the County of Hainaut with the Duchy of Brabant.

The first mention of a stone castle was in the 12th century. in 1357, Joan, daughter of Hoste of Ecaussinnes, marries Simon of Lalaing, Grand Bailiff of Hainault and Seneschal of Ostrevant. Simon became lord of Ecaussinnes upon his father-in-law's death. The line of Lalaing would give the second part of its name to the castle and village. The castle was however to pass briefly to another family, after the daughter and only heir of Simon III, Mary, espoused John I of Croÿ, Count of Chimay and Grand Bailiff of Hainault.

The house of Croÿ would rule over Ecaussinnes from 1476 to 1529. John I transformed the defensive fortress into a residential castle worthy of his rank of councillor of the Duke of Burgundy. When he died in 1516, the castle passed to his brother James, Bishop of Cambrai, who sold it to his nephew Charles, first Prince of Chimay. His daughter, Margaret, inherited Ecaussinnes. She married Charles of Lalaing, thus bringing back the seigneury to their former lords.

After troubled times during the Spanish occupation of the Southern Netherlands, Florent of Berlaymont and his wife Margaret of Ecaussinnes-Lalaing sold the estate in 1624 to Philip van der Burch. The new owner had been a magistrate of the court of justice of Bruges, and had recently been appointed Grand Bailiff of Hainault by the Archdukes of Austria Albert and Isabella. It is interesting to note that when the castle passed into the houses of Lalaing and Croÿ, the first new occupants also held the same position of Grand Bailiff of Hainault.

For 230 years the castle of Ecaussinnes-Lalaing was the home of the van der Burch. Antoine-Félicien van der Burch (1670- 1736) did a lot to improve the castle's appearance, such as laying out the gardens. He was granted the title of count by Emperor Charles VI.

When Count Charles van der Burch died in 1854, the new Napoleonic law prohibiting to bequeath all or most of one's properties to one child at the expense of the others, the heirs were forced to sell the castle to divide. It was acquired by the Duke of Arenberg, who only rented out the land and left the castle uninhabited.

Occupied by the German, then Canadian troops during the First World War, the castle narrowly escaped from being transformed by industrialists into working-class housing units after the war. Canon priest Puissant started some renovations, then convinced Count Adrien van der Burch, a descendent of the past proprietors, to purchase the castle and restore it to its former glory.

The count's son having died during WWII, and lacking other relatives, he created the "van der Burch Foundation" in order to preserve the castle after his death, which occured six years later. The president of the foundation is now the Professor Cauchies from the UCL. the castle is inhabited by Count Robert d'Ursel, administrator of the foundation, and his wife, who is vice-president.



https://www.eupedia.com/belgium/ecaussines-lalaing.shtml

Écaussinnes-Lalaing Castle


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

Le château de La Follie, situé au bord de la Sennette, à Écaussinnes-d'Enghien en province de Hainaut (Belgique), est un manoir du xvie siècle construit sur les fondations d'un ancien château fort (xive siècle).

Historique

Si le bâtiment actuel n'est pas plus ancien que le xvie siècle, des fouilles effectuées en 1928 par Pierre de Lichtervelde ont permis de découvrir d'anciennes douves de deux siècles plus anciennes. L'ancien château avait allure de forteresse avec quatre tours rondes avec mâchicoulis reliées entre elles par des murs de trois mètres d'épaisseur, le tout formant un solide quadrilatère. Circonscrit de douves, son entrée était défendue par un pont-levis.

Sous le château actuel se trouvent d'immenses caves voutées, où l'on peut encore voir les fondations des quatre tours d'angle aujourd'hui disparues. La présence d'une cheminée donne à penser que ces lieux étaient encore habitables au xive siècle. Au xvie siècle, pour la construction du nouveau château, le pavement fut surélevé, rendant ces pièces totalement souterraines.

Kasteel van La Follie

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


Le domaine de La Tournette date de l'ère romaine. A cette époque, l'agriculture y était déjà florissante et une grande villa romaine y avait été construite. Ses terres s'étendaient entre le Nord-Ouest de Nivelles et le Centre d'Ittre.

Les bâtiments actuels datent du début du 16ème siècle, dont le château et la ferme servaient de résidence d'été et de pavillon de chasse. Les 300 dernières années ont vu de nombreuses modifications des bâtiments et ce, entre autres, à cause de dommages occasionnés par un incendie important.

En 1988, des investisseurs projetaient de construire un club de golf de prestige sur le domaine de 130 ha. Mais c’est seulement depuis 1994, sous l’impulsion de la famille actuellement propriétaire, que le rêve s’est matérialisé.

Deux parcours "championship" de normes internationales les plus élevées furent créés, ainsi qu'un troisième terrain compact de 9 trous, un driving range et plusieurs greens d'entraînement.

Le Château devient un Clubhouse incluant des vestiaires, une bibliothèque, une salle de bridge, un bar, deux restaurants et des salles de séminaires et de réunions. Dans les bâtiments annexes, furent aménagés un Pro Shop, des bureaux et une école de golf.

En 2006, les infrastructures ont encore une fois été totalement rénovées: le Clubhouse redessiné, des nouvelles cuisines aménagées, une orangerie et un vaste parking construits, des cours intérieures arborées, la terrasse remodelée, ...

Aujourd’hui, le Golf Château de la Tournette offre à ses Membres et à ses invités l’un des plus beaux et plus prestigieux environnements golfiques du royaume, un Club fier d’être considéré comme une référence en Belgique, par la communauté (inter)nationale de golf.

http://www.tournette.com/histoire/4571925528

Château de la Tournette

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


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.