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Groenenberg Castle – View of Schepdaal loop from Park van het Kasteel van Gaasbeek

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Groenenberg Castle – View of Schepdaal loop from Park van het Kasteel van Gaasbeek

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Groenenberg Castle – View of Schepdaal loop from Park van het Kasteel van Gaasbeek

02:02

7.62km

80m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 21, 2026

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288 m

Information board: Welcome to Groenenberg

Highlight • Rest Area

Here you will find a plan with legend and relevant information.

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Groenenberg Castle

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Groenenberg is a 45-hectare park in our sub-municipality of Vlezenbeek. The eye-catcher is the beautifully restored Groenenberg Castle. Around 1900, notary Charles Claes built the Groenenberg country house. It was the ‘largest castle in Vlezenbeek’, with a nod to its neighbour in Gaasbeek
The beauty of Groenenberg Castle is getting stiff competition from a number of striking nature collections. Solitary trees and colourful shrubs, eye-catching azalea bushes and purple butterfly bushes guarantee colour all year round. You will have to go out yourself to experience the diversity in Groenenberg!
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1.35 km

View of Schepdaal

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Here you have a beautiful view of the surroundings in clear weather.

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4.87 km

Village square and pillory Gaasbeek

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The protected village center of Gaasbeek is shaded by a double row of plane trees and chestnut trees that surround the bluestone pillory. This pillory consists of a smooth shaft with a high pedestal and crown without inscription.
On the east side of the square is the church and rectory site, both of which were conceived as a traditional 'private courtyard'.
The parish church was originally a chapel dependent on the mother parish of Sint-Kwintens-Lennik, its foundation as an independent parish dates back to 1381. Disagreement between the various tithe collectors, in particular the lord of Gaasbeek, the pastor of Sint-Kwintens-Lennik and the chapter van Nijvel was the reason for this.
The rectory was erected northeast of the church choir and has been used as a Heemkundig Museum for some time. It was built in 1758 with the proceeds of the tithes of the chapter of Nivelles, as confirmed by the now disappeared annual journal "DeCIMa CapItVLI". She replaced an older rectory that was too far away. Like the church, it is set against a hill, surrounded at the front and rear by a garden almost completely enclosed by brick walls. The rectory has the shape of a traditional double house with two storeys of five bays under a saddle roof and shows a remarkably sober approach.
On the corner with Onderstraat is the so-called café, farm and brewery "De Molensteen". Surrounding an elongated paved courtyard, along the square side, is a residential house conceived as a double house with one storey, five bays and a saddle roof (tiles) that is dated 1777 by means of annual anchors in the rear facade. The whitewashed brick facade with a cross-arched door and two similar barred windows in painted natural stone frames contains two rectangular windows with leak thresholds from the 19th century on the left. In Onderstraat, there is first an 18th-century entrance gate with wooden lintel under a tile hip roof and then a brick stable wing (18th century) under a saddle roof (tiles) with roof and braiding. On the other side, a more recent commercial building, and on the short side, a brick longitudinal barn under a saddle roof (tiles) built in 1859 in projecting brick heads (side wall).

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Church of Our Lady Gaasbeek

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In 1381, Sweder van Abcoude, lord of Gaasbeek, elevated the local chapel to a parish church.
The choir is probably the remnant of the first chapel from the 13th century. The nave was added in the 15th century. The church was heavily damaged by war at the end of the 17th century. The side aisles and the interior decoration in baroque and roccoco date from the 18th century. Above the door is the coat of arms of the Scockart family, lords of Gaasbeek in the 18th century. The cemetery contains some beautiful funerary monuments.

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