Kasteel van Arenberg

Kasteel van Arenberg is a chateau in Heverlee close to Leuven in Belgium. It is surrounded by a park. The site had been the manor of the masters of Heverlee since the twelfth century, however this family ended up devastated and needed to pitch the site in 1445 to the Croy family from Picardy. Antoine I de Croy obliterated the medieval chateau and began attempts to manufacture the present house in 1455 on the site, of which he crushed everything except one pinnacle. His grandson, William de Croy, finished the chips away at the chateau in 1515, and established a religious community on the château justification for the Benedictine Celestines.

The engineering style is in huge part customarily Flemish, with sandstone window edges and block dividers, however it has been basically changed since 1515 and has components of Gothic, Renaissance, and Neo Gothic design. Its huge corner towers are average, once surmounted by a German bird. Indeed, even before the First World War, the eighth duke of Arenberg needed to offer the château and its grounds to the Catholic University of Leuven, for a sensible price. During the First World War, the chateau and grounds were possessed by the Germans and Austrians.