Dry Borren

Dry Borren (French: Trois-Fontaines; Latin: Tres Fontes) is a historic site in the Sonian Forest in the Brussels municipality of Auderghem, Belgium.

[1] In the last year of his life, he founded a chapel there dedicated to the Virgin Mary and to Saint Catherine.

The same year, the people of Liège were imprisoned at Dry Borren, but they escaped and the Council of Brabant granted them letters of safe-conduct so they could come to Brussels and assert their rights.

It was rebuilt under King Philip II of Spain, and a group of about thirty men, including horsemen, was assigned to patrol the domain.

[1] The site came under the Dutch Société générale des Pays-Bas by order of King William I of the Netherlands in 1822.

Starting from this period, Dry Borren was designated as "farm" in documents until the Belgian State took ownership in 1906.

Thereafter, the non-profit association Le Conseil des Trois-Fontaines kept the residence and used the building as an exhibition space for some time.

[1] The remains of the castle received protected status through a royal decree issued on 19 November 1986.