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Kasteel de Marnix de Sainte Aldegonde
Bornem Castle (Kasteel Marnix de Sainte-Aldegonde) is a country house formerly a castle on a dead arm of the Scheldt in Bornem, province of Antwerp, Belgium. The present building was constructed at the end of the 19th century to plans by Hendrik Beyaert and remains in the ownership of the Marnix de Sainte-Aldegonde family. It sits beside the Oude Schelde with a stone bridge and landscaped forecourt.
First raised
1000
Its prime
1895
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1895
The shape it held in its prime.
Long rectangular stone main block in pale grey masonry with steep slate roofs punctured by multiple small dormer windows and a stepped gable; round corner towers with conical slate caps at left and right, and a taller cylindrical turret with machicolation-like crenel top rising above the roofline. A low stone terrace and balustraded bridge cross to the entrance; rectangular mullioned windows are regularly spaced across the façade. The building stands beside a calm channel of the Oude Schelde, with trimmed hedges and a gravel forecourt.
Its story
The story of Kasteel de Marnix de Sainte Aldegonde.
A manor house rose at Bornem in 1587, built on the foundations of an older castle by the Spanish nobleman Pedro Coloma, Baron of Bornhem and lord of Bobadilla, a follower of Alexander Farnese. The Coloma barons of Bornhem — counts from 1658, when Jean-François Coloma was raised to the dignity — held the property through the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The estate was afterwards leased by the family de Marnix de Sainte-Aldegonde, who became outright owners in 1773. The present building, a country house on a dead arm of the Scheldt, was constructed at the end of the 19th century to plans by Hendrik Beyaert.
It remains in the ownership of the house of Marnix de Sainte-Aldegonde; the current resident is John de Marnix de Sainte-Aldegonde, 14th Count of Bornem. The castle sits beside the Oude Schelde, reached by a stone bridge across its landscaped forecourt.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1895.
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Clans who held Kasteel de Marnix de Sainte Aldegonde.
The families that held Kasteel de Marnix de Sainte Aldegonde for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Coloma
Held by the Coloma barons, later counts, of Bornhem from Pedro Coloma's manor house of 1587.
Marnix de Sainte-Aldegonde
Leaseholders who became outright owners in 1773; the family still resides at Bornem Castle.
