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Location: Hoegaarden, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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1. Hoegaarden City Park – Grote Gete loop from Hoegaarden

8.65km

02:17

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2. Beautiful hiking... – Hoegaarden City Park loop from Hoegaarden

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3. Celis Mill – Hoegaarden City Park loop from Hoegaarden

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01:44

40m

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November 17, 2024

The Maagdendal or Mariadal monastery of the bogaards (also begaarden), the male counterpart of the beguines, was founded around 1450 on an evocative site: the wide ring moat and the two islands suggest an old castral motte (perhaps the place where Prince-Bishop Balderik of Liège wanted to build a castle around 1010 and had wide moats dug for that purpose, direct cause of the Battle of Hoegaarden in 1013, but this is far from proven according to A. Wauters).

On a map of the taxes and fiefs of the abbey of 't Park in Hoegaarden and Outgaarden from 1663, the monastery is shown as a closed complex with a square plan. On the Ferraris map (1771-1778) it has a plan in the shape of an 'h' in mirror image, with a vegetable garden, an orchard and what was probably a large ornamental garden with a path cross and an oval widened intersection. That this ornamental garden formed a separate island is evident from the Primitive cadastral map drawn up by Sablon around 1820.

In 1797, the Bogaarden monastery and its grounds, a total of three hectares, were sold as 'national property' to former members of the congregation.

In 1820, the former monastery domain was purchased by the congregation 'Soeurs de l'Union au Sacré-Coeur' (now translated as 'Sisters of the Association with the Sacred Heart'), an order founded around 1800 by priest François-Joseph Delfosse that focused on education. That same year, 'Val Virginal', a boarding school for girls, opened its doors.

The Primitive cadastral map closely matches the Ferraris map; the monastery complex has almost the same layout. The oldest cadastral register (1831), in the name of "ménagère" Petronelle Pierraerts and associates, describes the main building as "Maison bâtiment et cour brasserie" and mentions three garden plots, together with ponds and moats 4 hectares 27 ares in size.

The congregation also owned 13 hectares of agricultural land in Hoegaarden and had a chapel built in Sint-Katarina-Houtem, on the highest point of the plateau between the Grote Gete and the Molenbeek-Menebeek - the 'Marollenkapel' or 'Klein Scherpenheuvel'.

Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Domain Mariadal, id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/134185

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Location: Hoegaarden, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

Mariadal Estate

1. Hoegaarden City Park – Grote Gete loop from Hoegaarden

2. Beautiful hiking... – Hoegaarden City Park loop from Hoegaarden

3. Celis Mill – Hoegaarden City Park loop from Hoegaarden

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