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Location: Borgloon, Tongeren, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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1. Saint Genoveva Church Zepperen – Sint-Jozef chapel (field chapel) loop from Zepperen

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2. Sint-Jozef chapel (field chapel) – Saint Genoveva Church Zepperen loop from Hoepertingen

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3. Helshoven Nature Reserve – Helshoven Chapel loop from Hoepertingen

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January 24, 2025

Before Jan-Willem van Scharenberg became the first of the Scharenberg family to own the Hoepertingen estate, the castle he bought was owned by Ernest d'Arenbergh de La Marck. At that time it was still a moated house with a leasehold farm, a very small part of which still exists in the current Hoepertingen castle. I deliberately write Hoepertingen castle because the name Mariagaarde is more recent and is actually no longer correct because there are already new owners and they gave it a new name.

The list of the various previous owners has already been mentioned and is available together with the full description of the current U-shaped moated castle with northwestern corner tower, the former keep at inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/31935

In 2022, the Annuntiaten sisters of Heverlee sold what was also called Mariagaarde for a while as described by Dirk V. It was bought by the Dutch family van Vloten who also owned Château de la Motte in Sint-Truiden.

The castle in Hoepertingen was renamed Château de Looz (Looz is French for Wage). Since 2024 it has been a star hotel with a brasserie, party venues, lounge bar, beautiful terrace and so on.

In the takeover it was agreed that people like you and me can still walk in the park and on the estate. You can see the result in the photos. I thought it was worth it. And Mary, she still watches in the form of a statue in the park.

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Dirk V 🚲 🚶📷

April 9, 2023

The current castle had a predecessor, which was described in 1476 as a moated house with a farmyard. A Gothic marl stone wall alcove reminds us of this older building. In 1617, the castle and seigneury were sold to Jan-Willem van Scharenberg. He had the current castle built. In 1688 all this was sold to Pierre-Louis de Sluse de Bihain. In 1763 it was renovated in classicist style by Jean Ferdinand de Sluse. The oldest known image of the castle was made in 1740 by Remacle Leloup.

In 1788 the castle came to the house of De Stenbier de Wideux, and the castle remained in the possession of this family until 1888. Then it came into the possession of the Roly de Vien family through inheritance, and then it came to De Moffarts. Baron Edmond de Moffarts sold it in 1929 to the sisters Annunciaten van Heverlee. They set up a domestic school there. In 1985 this was transformed into the reflection center Mariagaarde. Part of the castle has been given a tourist function.

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Vansteenkiste Peter

April 6, 2025

nice terrace at the back of the brasserie

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Location: Borgloon, Tongeren, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

Mariagaarde Castle

1. Saint Genoveva Church Zepperen – Sint-Jozef chapel (field chapel) loop from Zepperen

2. Sint-Jozef chapel (field chapel) – Saint Genoveva Church Zepperen loop from Hoepertingen

3. Helshoven Nature Reserve – Helshoven Chapel loop from Hoepertingen

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