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Country House Het Hof

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Location: Vosselaar, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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1. Country House Het Hof – Technico Kayak Club Turnhout loop from Stokt

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2. Looypaal Boundary Marker – Grassy field surrounded by trees loop from Beerse

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3. Country House Het Hof – Looypaal Boundary Marker loop from Vosselaar

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April 27, 2025

The building is currently being renovated. The exterior has already been renovated and is bright white. The park remains largely accessible with many benches, a beautiful piece of forest with some huge trees and at this time of year many lilies of the valley.

The former rectory Het Hof with its moated domain and adjoining park forest is an important witness to the religious past of both Vosselaar and Beerse. The central location on the Hofeinde and possibly also the site with its ramparts refer to the earliest parish history of both municipalities, dating back to 1187.

The former rectory is a double house of five bays and two storeys under a slate hipped roof with flanking side wings of three/two bays under hipped saddle roofs with dormers.

The front facade of the cemented volume is painted. Bluestone has been used for the processing of plinths, window sills and frames. The front facade is further characterized by a slightly risalit-forming central bay and cordons. The front facade contains segmental arch windows that are more decoratively worked out on the ground floor and in the central bay of the main building, namely in belted frames with hollowed-out jambs. The windows on the first floor also have sills on small consoles. The mirrored arch door under a stretched sill has a segmental arch-shaped fanlight. Each of the parts is glazed and provided with 19th-century ironwork in a star motif. The gate is contained in a wide bluestone rococo frame with profiles, keystone, cordons, C-shaped curls, cornices, volutes, ... The rear facade contains rectangular wall openings and an oval oculus. At the rear are more recent extensions under a flat roof.

Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Rectory Het Hof with park forest, id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/12397

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April 27, 2025

In front of the parsonage is a spacious lawn that merges into a pond. This pond was constructed in part of the former moat structure. The pond was supplied with water via the Eindeloop and then supplied the wide rampart. To the east of the main building, this moat is clearly recognisable in the park layout. It surrounds the former rectangular vegetable garden. To the west of the parsonage, the route of this moat is less clearly visible. Due to a damming in the area, the moats were dry at the time of the protection (2001). There was only water in the pond. It is possible that these moats surrounded the original parsonage domain. Concrete bridges in imitation wood lie over the moat structure at three locations in the park.

To the west of the vegetable garden is a lane that leads, with a slight bend, to the Kapelstraat. All around, there is a park forest with an important tree population, which according to the Biological Valuation Map (version 2, 1997-2010) consists of acid oak forest. The moat is bordered by a row of trees with a dominance of beech.

Despite the neglect, the domain has preserved its typical components such as an avenue of trees, an orchard, a pond, a wide moat, bridges, etc.

Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Rectory Het Hof with park forest, id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/12397

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January 31, 2022

Het Hof, a beautiful white country house that has been protected as a monument since 2001, dates from 1750 according to a cemented stone. At the time, it served as the parsonage of the double parish of Beerse-Vosselaar. In 1776 these two parishes separated from each other, after which Het Hof became a whole. For a while it remained the parsonage of the Our Lady parish of Vosselaar until it was publicly sold in 1852. Around the Hof there is a green lung of 27 hectares with valuable forests and open agricultural areas.

Currently only a small part of the domain is accessible. You can take a walking loop in the forest, which starts at Kapelstraat and Kriksensstraat.

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Location: Vosselaar, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

Country House Het Hof

1. Country House Het Hof – Technico Kayak Club Turnhout loop from Stokt

2. Looypaal Boundary Marker – Grassy field surrounded by trees loop from Beerse

3. Country House Het Hof – Looypaal Boundary Marker loop from Vosselaar

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