Replacing an original building destroyed by fire, the current château was built from 1874 to 1877 for Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders.

Ten years later, the property was sold to Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, the brother of King Leopold II.

After a fire destroyed this first manor house in 1873, Prince Philippe commissioned the architect Gustave Saintenoy to build a replacement.

[3] When Prince Philippe died in 1905, his three children inherited the château and sold it to the Liège wood merchant Robert Colette for 7 million Belgian francs.

[4] During the First World War, a patrol of German soldiers commanded by Lt. Wolf-Werner von Blumenthal of the 2nd Reserve Heavy Cavalry occupied the château, which left it without major damage, except in the wine cellar.