アンデルリュの洞窟・トップ10

Very beautiful park and woods

Superb castle and park

There are still two towers in Mont-sur-Marchienne. At 50 m from each other.

The village of Mont-sur-Marchienne is mentioned for the first time in a list of properties managed by the Abbey of Lobbes in the 9th century. The land belonged at the time to the Bishop of Liège who had received it from the King of Germany, Arnould de Carinthie. From the end of the 10th century, the seigneury of Mont-sur-Marchienne was therefore in the principality of Liège. The solicitors of this town also own the seigneury of Montigny-le-Tilleul. In 1408, the prince-bishop personally regained control of the property for two long centuries. In 1616, the seigniory was committed to the Bilquin-de Cartier family. In the center of the entity, on either side of rue Cardinal Mercier, are the remains of the Château de la Torre, built in the 16th century and which then served as a castle-farm. Around 1570, the building belonged to the bailiff of Marchienne before falling to the Spanish family of Torre y Butron Muxica. In the 19th century, the castle was transformed into a recreation center by the owners of a steelworks before being destroyed between 1942 and 1947 to make way for a residential area. At the entrance to Rue de l'Industrie and Rue du Château are two circular turrets that once flanked the southern flank of the castle. They are surmounted by a polygonal roof with a slate steeple and were built of limestone rubble.

The castle was built in the 13th century by order of Nicholas III van Fontaines, bishop of Cambrai. After his death it was inherited by his sister, the wife of Baudouin de Hennin-Liétard. Later it passed into the hands of famous families such as the Hamals, Herzelles and Rodoans. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was completely restored and given a more refined interior. A new renovation by the Bivort de la Saudée family followed in the 19th century.[1] They called on the architect Auguste Cador for this. After the Second World War, the municipality bought the building (1946). It served as a town hall. (Wikipedia)

This is not entirely correct and the source is not credible. Thomas Bonehill died in 1858 and therefore cannot have started the construction of the castle in 1887. It was his son Emile who initiated it (for his daughter Elisa, information to be validated).

"In Hourpes, the second residence linked to the family of Thomas Bonehill, an English engineer and founder of the Forges de la Providence in Marchienne-au-Pont (a company specializing in steel production), still exists. Thomas Bonehill, during a trip to Bohemia, was amazed at the sight of a castle; he had a replica built between 1887 and 1888 for the daughter of Emile Bonehill-Servais, with a concierge's lodge on the left and a stable on the right. The Bonehills operated two factories in Hourpes, and had the mining village built there, which is still there today. They went bankrupt in 1926, and the equipment was dismantled and transferred to Ireland ten years later." https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm11K38_Chteau_de_Hourpes_Thuin_Belgique

Has some Asian style in it...