Goé Castle

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Goé Castle
Ice cellar
Rear view

The Goé Castle ( French Château de Goé ) was built as a country house (gentilhommière) of a patrician family in the 18th century. In November 1847 the owner at the time, Eugène Poswick, hosted the Belgian King Leopold I for three days , who had traveled to the Hertogenwald on a hunting trip . The castle is located on the outskirts of Goé , now part of Limbourg in Belgium .

description

The property, built shortly after 1700, is located in the Weser valley at the entrance to Goé on a plot of around 2.4 hectares. It is surrounded by a park with a pond, a path lined with spruce trees that leads into the surrounding meadows, and an ice cellar built in 1752 by Chevalier Jean-Pierre de Lantremagne, who acquired the castle in 1748. Two entrances with gates lead to the property, which in addition to the main house also has outbuildings and a winter garden. Holiday apartments are currently being rented out in the castle.

Location

The castle was a film location , including:

  • 2004 The Other Woman by Margarethe von Trotta - ARD.
  • 2010 "Castles and Palaces" special of the "perfect dinner" - VOX TV

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Guy Poswick: Les délices du duché de Limbourg. 1951 (description in French)

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '25.4 "  N , 5 ° 57' 28.3"  E