Hex Castle

Heks Castle is a mansion inside the village of Heks inside the municipality of Heers, province of Limburg, Belgium. The residence changed into built within the 1770s with the aid of the Liège architect Etienne Fayen for the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Franz Karl, Count of Velbrück. As a humanist and nature-lover, the prince-bishop chose this spot in the scenic Haspengouw place on which to construct his us of a residence and to lay out a number of gardens, which includes a Chinese garden, a kitchen garden and a rose garden. Later he delivered one of the first landscaped parks on the European mainland, inspired by way of the English landscaping of Capability Brown.

The bishop died right here in 1784. The property is now in the non-public possession of Count Ghislain d' Ursel, because the third technology. They maintain the estate in shape and repair the valuable gardens and heritage. The rose garden includes an incredible assortment of approximately 250 sorts, of which the oldest were present within the unique lawn. Since 1970 Countess Michel d'Ursel restored and extended the original formal Renaissance lawn laid out through Prince Bishop Velbruck in 1770.