Borrekens Castle

Coordinates: 51°12′48″N 4°46′39″E / 51.2132°N 4.7775°E

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Borrekens Castle


General information
Town or city	Vorselaar, Antwerp
Country	Belgium
Coordinates	51°12′48″N 4°46′39″E / 51.2132°N 4.7775°E / 51.2132; 4.7775
Elevation	18 metres (59 ft)^[1]
Construction started	1270

Borrekens Castle, known also as Vorselaar Castle or Kasteel de Borrekens, is a castle within the municipality of Vorselaar, in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

The first feudal castle was built at the end of the 13th century by a member of the Van Rotselaar family. It is surrounded by a moat, and guarded by fortified towers at the entrance, to make it difficult for the attackers, surrounded the stronghold.^[2]

House of Borrekens

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The family still lives today, and comes from an old important line of nobles: the noble house of Borrkens descents from Laurent de Borrekens, grand Almoner of Brussels, married to Magdalen de Vielleuze. His grandson Englebert de Borrkens was Grans Almoner of Antwerp. Their descendants were incorporated in the Holy empire and knighted.

The castle came into the hands of Baron Edouard Adrien de Borrekens, of the De Borrekens family, through his marriage to Marie-Eulalie van de Werve in 1911. He had a French garden laid out in the courtyard by John Juchem.^[3] The last inhabitant of the castle was baron Raymond de Borrekens, who died in 1998. It was subsequently leased out by a family company.^[4]

References

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^ elevationmap.net
'^ "Kasteel 'de Borrekens, Vorselaar.be". Archived from the original on 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
^ K. Van Dessel, Baron Roger de Borrekens overleden, in Gazet van Antwerpen (27/02/2008).
'^ "Kasteel 'de Borrekens, Vorselaar.be". Archived from the original on 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2022-06-17.

External links

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Castles.nl - Borrekens Castle

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