Kasteel Hillenraad

English translation

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Description

MAIN BUILDING. From and around a late-medieval core, an encircled square gentleman's house developed in the 17th and 18th centuries with three projecting wings (two at the ends on the front and one in the middle on the rear) and four tower-like corner pavilions, which ensemble received its present form in 1767.

Brick building, covered by a complicated system of hipped roofs with roof dormers and brick chimneys with natural stone bands and wrought-iron crowns; the corner pavilions are provided with tapered tower spires, crowned by octagonal closed lanterns with bell-shaped finials.

Of the facades, which are terminated by a continuous natural stone moulding with small corbels, and which are all provided with arched windows in natural stone frames with projecting keystones, the front facade is crowned in the middle by a natural stone pediment containing in relief the combined coat of arms of the 17th-century couple Schenk van Nijdeggen-d'Oyenbrugge, and in monochrome painting the figures of Zeus and Poseidon and a ribbon with the inscription DoMIne hInC fVLgVra qVaeso repeLLas, which yields the chronogram 1767. Above the pediment a clock case connected to the main roof is installed beneath a curved roof with a square dial face on the front, partly placed in front of the pediment, bearing the year 1737, above which a small window and a striking bell.

Between the side wings set at right angles to the front facade extends a terrace paved in natural stone, resting on part of the basement storey, accessible via two staircases that lead from the level of the bridge over the inner moat to that of the main floor. The brick supporting walls of the staircases and the terrace are crowned by natural stone balustrades, on which stand two wrought-iron lanterns (possibly circa 1910). To the basement a round-arched door provides access, set in a natural stone frame. On the terrace the main door provides access to the main floor; this door is set in a natural stone frame on which a stepped-gable-shaped superstructure with oval window, flanked by two decorative vases from which flames rise.

Interior Louis XV chimneypieces and chimneybreasts, stucco ceilings; in the entrance hall a staircase in three sections and in the great hall besides chimneypiece and ceiling, oak panelling and a parquet floor with a figured pattern.