Meylandt - Heusden-Zolder

Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, Belgium

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Meylandt—formally Kasteel Meylandt or the former domain of the noble leen Meylandt—is a pink neoclassical country house and estate in the village of Heusden, part of the municipality of Heusden‑Zolder in Limburg, Belgium, situated along the N72 between Hasselt and Beringen and now housing the municipal academy of visual arts.

The site has been in use since at least the 1380s, when it was first mentioned as “Hof ter Boeckt”, and the name Milandt appears from 1603; in 1715 the estate passed by marriage to Knight Arnold de Theux, who rebuilt it into a luxurious castle, and in 1842 it was considerably altered by State Minister Barthélemy‑Théodore, Count de Theux de Meylandt, who later shaped the Belgian constitution and helped choose the first king, while the current neoclassical form dates from a final renovation in 1907 by his son Albert, Count de Theux de Meylandt, replacing an earlier 1842 house.

The municipality of Heusden bought the estate in 1959, and today the building serves as an art academy while the surrounding park, laid out in landscape style in the mid‑19th century and now part of a larger domain of about 23 hectares with ponds, fruit orchards, vegetable gardens and the Mangelbeek valley, is freely accessible to the public for walking, cycling and dog‑walking, and offers a starting point for the Mangelbeek Valley walk and the “Bos van de Mangel” route, as well as a small café called De Blokhut by the fishing ponds.