Bloemendal Castle

The first stone of Bloemendal Castle was laid in 1791 by order of Arnold von Clermont. Von Clermont was purveyor to the Russian Tsar and had the great dream of building a castle. He started building his country house at the age of 63. The course after that is fairly tragic: even before the castle was completed a few years later, Von Clermont died. After his death, the castle was commissioned by his son.

The castle fell into disrepair over the years and was restored in the 1990s. Since then it has been used as a hotel, so if you want to spend a royal night during your walking tour in Vaals, you can go here.

Exclusive Kasteelhotel. Luxe castle rooms and wellness suites. Multifunctional numbers. Knus à la carte restaurant and wijnbar.Source and link:hotelbloemendal.nlDefinitely worth seeing even without a hotel booking. Very beautiful and well-kept park.

The house has a palatial appearance and was built in the years 1791-1795. The design of the house is probably by the Aachen architect Joseph Moretti, who had previously built the Vaalsbroek castle and the Clermont house for the Von Clermonts. The original house was a wide building with a full basement, which was built in three layers above the cellars: a rez de chaussée (ground floor), above that the belle étage, a third floor and a high mansard roof that housed two attic floors. The building was built in the then popular Louis XVI style. It had a central riser on the front facade with a pediment on top, and a double landing staircase to the main entrance. The mansard attic was converted (at least before 1897) by the religious into a full-fledged fourth floor, with a single-storey attic.More or less on the foundations of the demolished, former monastery wings, modern, slightly circular hotel wings were built on either side of the castle around 1991. No trace remains of the chapel.