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Retie Castle

Belgium · 20th century

Founded
1906
Coordinates
51.26605°, 5.07007°
Links
OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
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Retie Castle in Belgium
Photo: De Sadeleer, Sibylle · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Château de Réthy or Château du Four is a country house resembling a castle, located in the Belgian municipality of Retie.

It stands along the road linking Retie to Kasterlee and was built in 1906 in a neo-Gothic style to a design by the Leuven architect Pierre Langerock on behalf of François du Four, mayor of Turnhout and owner of the Brepols printing works. During the summer months the château served as a holiday residence for the Du Four family and, during the winter, hunts were organised there. The magnificent 30-hectare English landscape park was created by the Brussels landscape architect Jules Buyssens.

The Klyn Hoeve, "small farm" in English, is located at the entrance to the estate. This farm, with its main building, its kitchen garden and its orchard, supplied food to the château at the time. The Klyn Hoeve is probably the oldest farm in Retie. It is already mentioned in the 16th century. It was then used as a tithe barn. The farm is currently used as a brasserie.

The coach house currently serves as the home of a motorcycle club, while the former stables are on the other side of the road. These are included in the De Linde holiday estate.

Machine-translated from “Château de Réthy” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Retie Castle ranks #6,888 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #107 of the 140 mapped in Belgium. Founded 1906, one of 175 atlas entries founded in the 20th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 961 times in the last 60 days, more than 54% of the atlas. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Geel, 13 km away. See how Belgium compares in the castle statistics.

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