Château St. Gerlach

Since 1997, the complex at Joseph Corneli Allee has been a luxurious hotel, restaurant and conference center established.

The history of the castle begins in the mid-twelfth century with the hermit Gerlachus, who withdrew to the Geul Valley to pray and at the same time regularly make a pilgrimage to the tomb of Servatius of Maastricht.

When he died in 1165, his grave became a place of pilgrimage for the local population because the people attributed miracles to him.

In 1574, during the Eighty Years' War, the monastery was destroyed by Louis of Nassau during a campaign against the Spanish.

Subsequently, it came back into Dutch hands via an exchange in 1786, after which the institute ladies left for the empty Carthusian monastery Bethlehem in Roermond.

A hole in a large mirror above a mantelpiece was made by a pistol shot fired by one of the American soldiers.

He stayed overnight in the hotel with his wife during a short visit to Limburg on the occasion of the commemoration of the end of the Second World War 60 years earlier.

In 2016, a major extension of the hotel was realized in the 17th-century Broers castle farm, which was acquired a year earlier.