New Urban Relics
februari 13, 2026
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A particularly strange building, this little chateau… Although it looks quite grand and stately from the outside, it has remarkably few rooms on the inside. Surprisingly small rooms at that. The most surprising thing, however, is that there is no direct connection between the two lower floors and the two upper floors. If you want to get from one part to the other, you have to go around the outside... The stairs from the living room to the sleeping area (both towers) are dangerously steep and require some agility.
We owe this original building to a family of Liège merchants. On the sandstone facade, above the two rows of tall windows, four wrought-iron figures bear witness to the year of construction: 1651. The oldest tower on the left is remarkably crowned by a projecting section. The picturesque building towers over the Vesdre and is a silent witness to 400 years of hard labor in the metal industry. It belonged to a metal company that specialized in sawing large sheets of metal into smaller, more manageable pieces. Later, the company was transformed into a zinc rolling mill.
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