Bordingenhof – Brabant Square Farmstead

The name 'Bordingen' or Bordegem refers to the 'people of Bordo'.
These people were probably descendants of the old Frankish settlement and in this place had their housing "MEN WHO LIVED AT THE SOURCE".
Bordegemhof is the oldest square farm in the region.
It therefore dates from the time of the Franks and is mentioned for the first time in 1389 as a fief of the seigniory of Bierbeek with the Abbey of Villers as owner. Three centuries later, in 1700, the farm was sold to the College voor Kassel in Leuven. The College has the farm completely rebuilt between 1724-1762. Based on the year in the facade, the house was renovated in 1772.
If you are lucky you can have a look at the courtyard through the entrance gate.

This former farm of the Leuven Driutius College has a Frankish origin, which means it can also be considered one of the oldest in the region.The Bordingenhof, a large 18th-century closed square farm, is located along the Bevekomsestraat, on the southern edge of the village center of Bierbeek. The Bordingenhof is first mentioned in 1389, when this fief of the seigneury of Bierbeek was sold by the abbey of Villers to Aleydis van Raetshoven. In 1700, the Bordingenhof was sold to the president of the Driutius College in Leuven. In successive campaigns, the Driutius College had the farm completely rebuilt in the period 1724-1762. According to the date on the facade, the house was renovated in 1772, but the basic form was preserved. On June 22, 1808, the Bordingenhof was publicly sold as a confiscated religious property. In 1946, work was carried out on the longitudinal shed. The eastern stable wing was converted into a longitudinal single-row tie stable with gates in the southern gable. Immovable Heritage Inventory: Bordingenhof Farm, id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/200109

There is an information board at the gate where you can read that the oldest mention of the Bordingenhof dates from 1389 when it was sold by the Villers Abbey, which owned it at the time. Before it was purchased in 1700 by the Leuven Driutius College (a former college of the university whose entrance gate in the Schrijnmakersstraat in Leuven can still be seen and which was intended for students from the castellany of Kassel), it belonged to the Crabbe and from Troostemberg. The de Troostemberg family is also the former owner of the famous Troostembergbos). Almost all buildings of the Bordingenhof, as they are today, date from the second half of the eighteenth century.