Top 20 Castles around Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode

You can take nice walks there

In 2015, the castle served as a setting for the filming of the movie Les Profs 2

Almaric de Bigard, who was the first lord of Bigard, lived there around 1110. In 1422, Guillaume Rongman, lord of Bigard, was made captain of the city of Brussels by Philip the Good. Guillaume Estor was appointed baker of Brabant by letters patent of Charles the Bold, then became alderman of Brussels in 1475. Jean Estor and his mother were judged heretics (for Protestantism) and executed on January 6, 1548, their property confiscated and the Lordship of Bigard sold to Gaspard Schetz, Lord of Grobbendonck, on February 14, 1549, for 17,800 pounds. The lordship was erected into a marquisate under the name of Boisschot, when Helen of Boisschot, married Charles Ferdinand, Count of Königsegg-Rothenfels, interim regent of the Netherlands. Count Ferdinand of Boisschot in the middle of the 17th century had many works done, and had new buildings built. In 1902, the whole was very dilapidated and Raymond Pelgrims de Bigard took thirty years to rehabilitate it.

This castle has been a ruin since the end of WWII. Work is now being done to prevent it from collapsing further.

The restoration of the castle ruins has started.

The Castle of Laeken is one of the royal residences in Belgium. It is located in Laeken, part of the city of Brussels since 1921, in the north of the Brussels region. It is surrounded by a 120-hectare park, which also contains the Royal Greenhouses.

The Halle Gate is a former city gate in Brussels that now serves as a museum. The gate is located in the Small Ring of Brussels, at the end of Hoogstraat and the beginning of Waterloosesteenweg. It was built in 1381 and is the only Brussels city gate that has been preserved. This is also the last part of the former second city wall of Brussels that has been preserved. A metro station in the immediate vicinity is named after the gate, see Hallepoort metro station. The Halle Gate is surrounded by a park that bears the name of this building. When the first Brussels city wall gradually became too small for the ever-expanding city, it was decided to start the construction of a new, larger city wall. This wall, the route of which corresponded to the current Brussels inner ring, had seven large city gates: the Schaarbeeksepoort, the Namur Gate, the Leuven Gate, the Anderlechtse Gate, the Lakense Gate, the Flanders Gate, and of course the Halle Gate. At this time, city gates were usually named after the access roads on which they were located. In the case of this gate, the road led to the Brabant city of Halle, from which it also owes its name. The main function of the gate, like the rest of the wall, was military.

After the castle on the Borgtberg burned down during the Grimbergen War (1141-1159), the Lords of Grimbergen built a new residence at the place called "Boksem", about 600 m south of the village centre and the Norbertine abbey. This probably did not happen until the end of the 13th or in the 14th century, as no deeds were signed at the castle in Grimbergen in the 13th century. This castle was also demolished down to its foundations after a siege in 1488 by Maximilian of Austria and in 1489 by Duke Albert of Saxony. Reconstruction began at the end of the 15th century, possibly on the old foundations. The map book of the abbey (1699) and the copper engraving by Sanderus (1727) show a walled castle on the north side preceded by a walled farmyard. (Inventory of Immovable Heritage)