Castle of Melveren

Sint-Truiden, Belgium, Belgium

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Castle of Melveren (Dutch: Kasteel van Melveren) is a largely ruined manor house and former water castle in the village of Melveren, part of the municipality of Sint‑Truiden, Limburg, Belgium, situated just north‑west of the Salvator Mundi church and next to the psychiatric hospital Asster Sancta Maria campus.

The site originally belonged to an Augustinian monastery complex called Sint‑Luciadal, described in 1743 as a “house pleasantly situated bearing the marks of its past”, and the present buildings carry datestones from 1620 and 1742, with the 1620 inscription on a coat of arms of H. van Mettecoven and K. van Velpen on the gatehouse and the 1742 date on a stone bearing the blazon of W. Seroots in the former cross‑shoe.

The core of the castle dates from the 17th century in Meuse‑style architecture, visible in the surviving south‑west rear façade with its stone cross‑window frames, relieving arches and rounded doorways, while the north‑east front shows 18th‑century classical alterations with a two‑storey, five‑bay main block, and a classicist chapel of 1763 stands in the park with a round‑arched entrance and a slate‑roofed apse.