Haultpenne
The written Haute Penne Castle (French Château de Haute Penne ), also Haultepenne and skin Penne, is a palace complex in Gleixhe, a village in the Belgian municipality Flémalle. Since 1979, its headquarters building is a historical monument ( Monument classé ), 1984 then the entire castle complex was entered in the Belgian monument list.
Description
The approximately two -acre castle area extends on a rocky plateau, which is bounded on the west and north by a high retaining walls. Access granted to the north a simple gatehouse, the east a two storey building adjoins in the Baroque style. To the west of the gate there is a small pavilion with slated pyramidal roof. To the east of the site lies the terraced palace garden. The castle includes about 120 acres of forest and land ownership surrounding the plant.
The small castle is a two -winged building, the north wing dates with its hipped roof of the 17th century. This has cross Stock windows and light Eckquaderungen. Its two storeys were built of brick in the style of Renaissance Meuse and launched at the eastern end of a five-storey medieval tower house dating from the 14th century, which is completed by an unusually shaped, polygonal slate hood with wind direction sensor. Its thick walls rise about one meter to an approximately semi- circular plan and consist of crushed limestone. You have loopholes and only small, narrow windows. The tower is the oldest part of the castle dar. The north wing joins south at right angles to a single-story tract from the mid-18th century with a facade in Louis XV style to.
History
It was perhaps a native of the house Warfusée Lambert de Harduemont (also de Haultepenne ), who built a first castle in its present location in 1330. She served William I of the Mark temporarily as a refuge during his fight against the prince-bishop of Liège, Louis de Bourbon, when he had destroyed Wilhelms nearby castle Aigremont.
After Marguerite Waroux the Seigneurie Haute Penne came in 1409 to the Flemish family Berlaymont, in whose possession it remained until 1653. In that year, she bequeathed Marie de Berlaymont 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 plant in 1919 after the First World War as restitution and placed it under sequestration, before they acquired Antoine France in 1926. His daughter, a married Galand, inherited the property in 1945. Since then, the castle has been owned by this family.