The U-shaped Renaissance castle has a large garden. Next to the castle is a pond that flows into a moat, over which a drawbridge leads to the entrance gate.

The oldest core of the castle dates from the Middle Ages: in 1333 the castle belonged to the county of Loon.

Herman Typots, drossaard of the Land van Grevenbroek and castellan of the Prinsenhof in Kuringen, married Margriet van Chiney, daughter of Dirk van Chiney, lord of Schoonbeek and Anna Vandenbosch van Gors-op-Leeuw. In 1573 their grandson Hendrik Typots was still lord of the castle of Schoonbeek.

The Preston family from Ireland bought it in 1780. The next owner was the de Renesse family.

Count Theodore de Renesse was mayor of Beverst and governor of the province Limburg. Another descendant, Frédéric Alexandre Jean Marie Ghislain, Count de Renesse, born in Brussels on January 3, 1904, died unmarried in the castle on November 18, 1990. In 1991 the castle became the property of Count Thierry de Hemricourt de Grunne.

Source: nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterkasteel_van_Schoonbeek

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