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Pastur Castle

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Location: Jodoigne, Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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1. Château Ghobert – Château de Beaulieu (Lathuy) loop from Les Rendanges

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2. Château de Beaulieu (Lathuy) – The Hesserée Farm loop from Quartier Saint-Médard

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3. The Château de la Vicomté – Saint-Médard Church, Jodoigne loop from Jodoigne

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Jeff S

July 31, 2023

Pastur Castle... The Pastur Castle stands on the spot where the history of the town of Jodoigne began...
In the 12th century, Hendrik I, Duke of Brabant, built a castle with a donjon on a hill next to the Grote Gete and had sturdy city walls erected... The old castle was completely burned in 1578 by troops of the States General in the battle against Don Juan of Spain and later rebuilt...
The current castle dates from the 18th century. As a result of the occupation by the German army in World War II, the castle was badly damaged...
Twice the castle was converted into a school and boarding school, in 1833 by the Sisters of Providence, who left the castle in the autumn of 1834 and it passed into the hands of Mr. Joseph Philippe Pastur, hence the name... In 1960 it was bought by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Hoegaarden...
In 1988, the Pastur castle was purchased by the Municipality of Jodoigne... The castle is now the town hall...

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Dominiek Van Dooren

June 2, 2025

In the 12th century, Hendrik, the first Duke of Brabant, founded a new city to the north of the existing Saint-Médard district. The strongest point of the new Brabant lordship was located on a hill overlooking the Grote Gete. In order to fulfil the function of Brabant's bastion, the city was given ramparts and a kind of gate that was reinforced with an impressive tower that functioned as a keep. This original structure, which can be seen on the oldest seal of the city (1224), was gradually and over the centuries arranged as a large manor farm. In the 18th century, Jean-Engelberg, Count de Romrée, began rebuilding the city and had the castle converted into a large and beautiful residence, according to plans by architect Verreucken from Leuven. From then on, the castle was called Château de la Comté. In 1849, the Yves de Bavay family sold the castle to notary Philippe-Joseph Pastur. His descendants lived in the castle for four generations, so that it was soon called the Pastur Castle. After housing a boarding school and the management of a school, the castle was classified in 1971 and purchased by the city of Jodoigne, which housed its administration there in 1988.
(Information board on site)

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June 14, 2025

While Count Winant de Glymes and his wife still lived in the castle of Vicomté in the seventeenth century, in the eighteenth century it was time for a new castle and this was it.

After Winant de Glymes, Marquis Louis de Borgia de Tarazena, governor of Antwerp and nephew of Philippe de Ligne, took charge of Jodoigne. And in 1729 the lordship came into the possession of the Count of Romrée and his wife, Jeanne-Isabelle Vecquemans. In 1730 she had the old dilapidated buildings of the old castle that were still standing here converted into the Château de la Comté, now known as Château Pastur. Mrs. Vecquemans (1692-1756) was of course also from a good family: she came from the family of the barons Van la Vère and lords of s'Gravenwezel. She herself bore the title of Lady of Berentrode and Baert and her father was mayor of Antwerp.

She took over the county on 20 March 1754 after the death of her son Henri-François de Romrée (1721-1753). Then the son of her sister Isabelle, Ferdinand-Antoine d'Yve, inherited. And his son then sold it to notary Philippe Pastur, which immediately explains the name Château Pastur. Incidentally, the Pastur family also bought the castle de Beaulieu in neighbouring Lathuy - see komoot.com/nl-nl/highlight/3224318

Château Pastur is therefore not the same as the castle of Vicomté. However, a long time ago there was already a castle with a large wall within which the then centre of Jodoigne was located, which, thanks to those walls, had to endure less in the turbulent sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than everything outside those city walls.

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Location: Jodoigne, Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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1. Château Ghobert – Château de Beaulieu (Lathuy) loop from Les Rendanges

2. Château de Beaulieu (Lathuy) – The Hesserée Farm loop from Quartier Saint-Médard

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