- The owners of this castle have installed a circular platform at the pond that's ideal to take pictures.
- The castle of Horst is a castle in Sint-Pieters-Rode. The castle is well preserved and still has the traditional moat.
- This moated castle lies nestled in the green Wingebeek valley, between the Hageland hills. The Lords of Horst lived here as long ago as the 13th century...
- Most of the castles in Flanders were renovated or rebuilt in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries, but at Horst nothing happened; everything stood still after 1658.
- The Renaissance castle Horst rises on the site of a 1554 heavily damaged by fire medieval castle owned by the Ministerialadelsgeschlechtes of the Horst.
- The castle is under reparation and you cannot access to it, to be honest the front side looks abandoned and messy, I have the impression that the castle is not...
- In the 13th century the Horst family built a farm, which was fortitied as a moated castle in the the late 1300s by knight Pynnock.
- Before your visit, find out more about Horst Castle’s address, opening hours, and location on this page.
- From the elegant Horst Castle, stroll through the woods and fields of the magnificent Hageland region, surrounded by hundreds of acres of fruit orchards.