Hautepenne Castle

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Hautepenne Castle on a lithograph , late 19th century.

The Hautepenne Castle ( French Château de Hautepenne ), also spelled Haultepenne and Hautpenne , is a castle complex in Gleixhe , a village in the Belgian municipality of Flémalle . Since 1979, its main building is a listed building ( monument classé ), in 1984 the entire castle area in the Belgian was then monument list added.

description

The approximately two- hectare castle area extends on a rock plateau, which is limited to the west and north by high retaining walls. Access is granted in the north by a simple gate , which is adjoined to the east by a two-storey building in the Baroque style . To the west of the gate is a small pavilion with a slate-covered pyramid roof . In the east of the area is the terraced palace garden. The castle includes around 120 hectares of forest and land that surrounds the complex.

The small palace complex is a two-wing building, the northern wing of which with its hipped roof dates from the 17th century. This has cross-frame windows and light-colored corner blocks. Its two storeys were built from brick in the Maasland Renaissance style and at the eastern end meet a five-storey, medieval residential tower from the 14th century, which is closed by an unusually shaped, polygonal slate dome with a wind direction indicator . Its walls, which are more than one meter thick, rise on an almost semicircular floor plan and are made of broken sand-lime brick . They have loopholes and only small, narrow windows. The tower represents the oldest part of the castle. The north wing is adjoined at a right angle to the south by a single-storey wing from the mid-18th century with a facade in the Louis-quinze style.

history

The castle at the end of the 19th century

Perhaps it was Lambert de Harduemont (also de Haultepenne) from the House of Warfusée who had the first castle built at the present location around 1330 . It served Wilhelm I of the Mark temporarily as a place of refuge during his fight against Prince-Bishop of Liège Louis de Bourbon , when he destroyed Wilhelm's nearby Aigremont Castle .

After Marguerite de Waroux, the Seigneurie Hautepenne came to the Flemish Berlaymont family in 1409, who owned it until 1653. That year she bequeathed Marie de Berlaymont to her son, the future Count Louis Philippe d' Egmont , prince de Gane. From 1752 to 1982 the castle finally belonged to the Dukes of Aremberg .

The Belgian state confiscated the facility in 1919 after the end of the First World War as reparation and placed it under sequestration before it was acquired by Antoine France in 1926. His daughter, a married Galand, inherited the property in 1945. The castle has been owned by this family ever since.

literature

  • Marie-Ange Closon-Remy: Château de Hautepenne . In: Ministère de la Communauté Française, Administration du Patrimoine Culturel (ed.): Le patrimoine monumental de la Belgique. Volume 8: Province de Liège, Arrondissement de Liège . Part 1: A – J. Mardaga, Lüttich 1980, ISBN 2-8021-0031-9 , pp. 319-322 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Description of the castle on wallonie.be ( Memento from November 28, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Joel Matriche: Vies de châteaux . Part 1. In: Le Soir, August 4, 2003, p. 13 ( online ).
  3. ↑ M.-A. Closon-Remy: Château de Hautepenne. 1980, p. 320.
  4. ^ Website of the municipality of Flémalle ( Memento of November 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b Émile Poumon: Les châteaux du Pays de Liège . Éditions du cercle d'art, Brussels 1950 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 31 ″  N , 5 ° 24 ′ 5.4 ″  E