The Speelhof is a building with a surrounding domain, located at Speelhoflaan 5 in the Sint-Truiden district of Schurhoven.

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The Speelhof was built as a country residence for the abbots of Sint-Truiden Abbey. It was founded in 1585 by Abbot Christopher de Blocquerie. It remained the property of the abbey until 1796.

The property consists of a mansion with stables and a transverse barn, set around a rectangular cobbled courtyard, in the center of which is a small fountain. There is also a gatehouse with dovecote from the 2nd half of the 18th century. The outbuildings, to the left and right of the mansion, date from the 2nd half of the 18th century. The mansion, with an orangery behind it, dates from the first half of the 19th century. The whole is whitewashed.

The buildings are located on an estate, which is walled and moated. It includes a park, in which there are also some lanes and some old trees, an orchard and a vegetable garden.
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All buildings preserved today date essentially from the second half of the 18th century.
Historical maps from the end of the 17th century already depict buildings of a certain size and, more specifically, in the same location and in the same arrangement as the current buildings. In the 19th century, the mansion was raised and adapted. In the 20th century, the conservatory was added to the southeastern facade of the mansion together with the small portal to the garden facade. The interior of the ground floor of the mansion will also be adapted in this phase and expanded with three bays of the northeast wing. The last clearly visible renovation is the one carried out by the city in the 1990s. This mainly involves renovating the interior of the southwestern side wing of the main building. In this phase, the former farm building northeast of the barn will also be converted into a tavern and the barn will be converted into a banquet hall.

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