Zoerselhof Castle

Zoerselhof Castle

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Zoerselhof Castle

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Location: Zoersel, Antwerp, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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March 23, 2022

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The current building, with rooms for the abbot and the provost, was built in 1787 by the provost Bonifacius De Wolf. He managed the estates of the Hemiksem monastery, a former Cistercian abbey in the municipality of Hemiksem in the province of Antwerp. Since then, the farm has served as a children's home, a guesthouse, a hotel-restaurant, and finally a castle. Nowadays, you could live there – with the necessary cash.

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Claudine en Robert🇧🇪🚴

April 21, 2023

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The Zoerselhof dates from just before the French Revolution and was built by the monks of the abbey of Hemiksem. Through a donation of 1233 from the Duke of Brabant, Hendrik I, large areas of Zoersel and Westmalle came into the hands of the Abbey of Villers-la-Ville. That abbey wanted to found a new abbey in Zoersel. It did not happen.
It was eventually built in Hemiksem and those monks of Hemiksem eventually provided a large part of the view that Zoersel has today.

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Dominiek Van Dooren

April 13, 2024

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There was probably a hunting lodge here for the Duke of Brabant in 1233. The area was donated to the Saint Bernard Abbey in Hemiksem, which established an agricultural company there called Hoodonc (Hooidonk). The farm was first mentioned in 1287. It was split around 1566 into the Grote Hoeve van Hooidonk and the Kleine Hoeve van Hooidonk. In 1638 there were already four farms. There was also a house for the steward.
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