Le Chatêau de Oteppe.

Burdinne, Belgium, Belgium

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Le Château d’Oteppe is a historic castle in the village of Oteppe, part of the commune of Burdinne in the Liège province of Belgium, whose remains include a square 14th-century donjon (keep) at the south-east corner, an isolated round tower with a pepper-pot roof from the 17th century, and a main 17th-century residential building given a classical central façade in the 18th century.

Originally linked to the nearby castle of Moha, Oteppe entered the domain of the Prince-Bishops of Liège in the 13th century after Moha was captured, and for centuries formed part of the Moha bailiwick; in 1762 the lordship was sold by the Prince-Bishop to Jean-François-Louis de Lochon, a family that had been present in Oteppe for nearly three hundred years and held extensive lands there.

Over time the castle lost its purely defensive role and became a country manor, with windows opening onto a wide terrace facing the village and later adaptations that softened its fortress character while preserving the essential medieval towers and part of the old enclosure.