kasteel Quanonen

Beringen, Belgium, Belgium

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Kasteel Quanonen, also written as Kasteel Quanonne, is a castle‑like country house in Koersel, a village in the municipality of Beringen in the Belgian province of Limburg, standing on Pastorijstraat just north of the village centre.

It originated in 1770 as a manorial farm and estate of the Peeten family, a notable Aarschot landowning family, and was built as a large U‑shaped herenhuishoeve with a central gate tower and two wings, forming a compact, representative farm‑residence typical of the 18th‑century Haspengouw countryside.

In the middle of the 19th century, after the property had passed to the Quanonne family through the marriage of Frederik Quanonne with Maria Peeten, the farm complex was transformed into a neoclassical manor house, with the old gate tower and wings adapted to create a more elegant, residential building that reflected the taste and social standing of the elite of the time.

A park in landscape style, about three hectares in size, was laid out beside the house in the second half of the 19th century and later extended around 1900, creating a green setting that links the castle house with the surrounding village and fields and contributes to its appearance as a small “castle” rather than a plain farm.