Een bezoek aan een verlaten Chateau’tje,..;
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Chateau Hoogemeyer
Vast een voorproefje van een bezoek aan kasteel Hoogemeyer,…welke ondertussen gerenoveerd wordt,.;
Drama
Chateau Noisy
Uit de serie van Noisy een trappenhuis panorama verticaal..;
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Deeply hidden into the forests of the Ardennes lies the admirable castle Château de Miranda. The château is built in 1866 and has been designed by the English architect Milner, although the architect died before the building was completed. The task where continued by the French architect Pelchner. The Château was extended largely, in the beginning without the clocktower. The hugh clocktower was finished in 1903 and is 183 feet tall. The year 1907 marked the end of building activity. Initially Chateau Miranda served the family Liedekerke de Beaufort as a summer residence.
The castle has had several tasks. During the Ardennen offensive in World War II, the château was briefly occupied by German troops. As from 1950 the NMBS/SNCB (Belgium railway company) has used the castle as a holiday home. Around these days the castle is named Home de Noisy. Equipped with 200 places the “holiday camp” gave shelter to the children, who suffer from worse health conditions.
The fresh air, a fabulous playground, the swimming pool and the good food had its effect. The life on the Chateau Noisy was strictly, everything undertaken and run by female officials. At that time the clothes of the children where uniformly. After 1970 it was used for outdoor activities and sport holidays for children and was well known in Belgium. In October 1975 it served also as film scenery for a TV production. When exactly it was closed, is not to be said clearly. Into the 90ties the owners tried to find investors which could transform the château into a hotel, but the plans failed. Because high costs of the maintenance of the château and the enterprise of the holiday home had enormously risen. Since 1991 it has became empty, abandoned and is quickly falling in ruins since…
Urbex trip
Voor de liefhebbers even een update;
Stairway
Between 1876 and 1891 was lawyer Jean Henri Paul Ulens mayor of St. Truiden. He was a pronounced catholic character and president of the “Bureel van weldadigheid”, he was also chairman of the Provincial Commission Grand Foundations. Captain of the citizen guard and chairman of the agriculture commission.
It is 1850 when Mr. Ulens married his cousin Marie Ulens. In 1881 he gave order to build a small castle named Rochendaal. Today the weapon shield is still visible at the left hand side of the building. The whole domain including the castle where closed in 1996 and left abandoned since. After spending a lot of money on the infrastructure and modernize, the closing was hard to understand. After the leaving the castle is ransacked, vandalised and becomes gradually overgrown by nature.
During world war II the castle was incorporated in a military domain. The Belgium army made a base of operations nearby Brunstem. In may 1946 the military domain and airport where rapidly developed by the German luftwaffe, with in total 3 concrete runways. It became a important pawn in the military system of the Germans. The famous night hunting pilot Otto Frieze stayed on the then military castle.
After the war the domain felt back under competence of the Belgium army, the castle served as a officers place.The infrastructure, created by the Germans, was simply taken over and in the course of time it was extended. The Belgium airforce used the domain to accommodate airman, candidate airman and staff.
Chateau du Loup
In 1913, the industrial Gaspard Vanden Bogaerde has built in a large park just outside the center of a small town in Belgium two houses and a caretaker apartment building. He himself inhabited the Chateau du Loup (fake name). The style of this detached country house, designed by Jules Vercoutere, clearly refers to the 18th-century architecture and shows how the client wanted to reflect the rich noble families from the Ancien Regime. The luxurious interior is also proof of the richness of the client. In 2001 the two houses and the gatehouse have been declared as protected monuments.
Le Maison Noir
Chateau Noisy / Miranda
Hidden into the forests of the Ardennen lies the admirable castle Château de Miranda. The château is built in 1866 and has been designed by the English architect Milner, although the architect died before the building was completed.
The castle has had several tasks. During the Ardennen offensive in World War II, the château was briefly occupied by German troops. As from 1950 the NMBS/SNCB (Belgium railway company) has used the castle as a holiday home. It gave shelter to the children, who suffer from worse health conditions. After 1970 it was used for outdoor activities and sport holidays for children and was well known in Belgium. And in October 1975 it served also as film scenery for a TV production. Since 1991 it has became empty, abandoned and is the Chateau Noisy quickly falling in ruins since…
