Almost a thousand years ago, the Count of Loon gave the Jongenbos to a feudal lord, who gave his name to the domain. In the mid-18th century, Baron Van der Meer built the castle on the south side of the forest. The clay for the bricks was extracted on site, because it is barely one meter below the surface. In order to bake the bricks, he had almost all the trees felled. Afterwards, his workers replanted the forest, which is why you no longer find very old trees here. At the end of the last century, the Flemish Region bought the domain and since then it has been steadily expanded.

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

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