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Visit Castle of Trazegnies

The room of the Knights:

You' ll discover there splendid frescos carried out between the years 1750 and 1754, under Marquisat of Eleonore of Bode (Marchioness dowager) and his/her son, Joseph-Lothaire, Marquis of Trazegnies. These fresco were discovered in 1917 by two students trazegniens, under a layer of paint.

These fresco were carried out with an aim of ostentation, at one time when Trazegnies had lost much of their credit. This genealogy thus cannot, in no case, taken as reference, except the marriages indicated above the medallion (Traz. - Chiny/Traz. Mérode etc).

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The Castrale Vault:

This vault dedicated to SAINT LAURENT, is of baroque style . The old stone of the altar (discovery after 1926 behind the current furnace bridge) is on the right and inside the vault. It is struck Maltese cross and Templar.

 

The Room of the Sandstones:

The room of the sandstones is the old sacristy having also been used as room of archives. It has a chimney dating from the XVIIth century. The table being in this part represents Mr. Leon DUBOIS, wood industrialist and trader; he was the father of Mr. François DUBOIS (deceased in 1979), negotiating out of wood also. Mr. Fr. DUBOIS was an administrator and then President of the “Friends of the Castle of Trazegnies”. It is thanks to the legacy of this one, that this room as those of the stage, are decorated with furniture.

 

The Large Living room on the floor:

This room is L-shaped making it thus more practical, being able to accomodate there concerts, conferences, exhibitions, etc.
Furniture, silverware, the dishes of Tournai come from the succession of Mr. François DUBOIS.
To the bottom of the room, a staircase with double revolution of rockery style leads to a small room located above the vault castrale. In this part are gathered various travel souvenirs, reported from China and Japan at the beginning of the XXth century by the uncle of Mr. Fr. DUBOIS and bequeathed by this one to the castle.

Temporarily, the museum is closed because of the damage caused with the beams of the 1st stage.

Th "GILLION" room:

 

The Attics
They accomodate the Museum of the tools.

 

The new exhibition rooms (East wing) and the small castle of entry

Downstairs, the room with columns accomodates the various events (exhibitions, Christmas Market, etc) organized by the asbl.
On the floor, paintings of A.Mascaux, J. Ransy, R. Dumoulin are exposed. .

In the small castel of entry, Charles Delporte exposes his sculptures and paintings. Lit desks, located them also in the small castel, make it possible to discover illuminations representing the legend of GILLION, “Knight bigamist”. These illuminations come from a manuscript belonging to the Duke of DEVONSHIRE (Scotland) and were exposed to GRUUTHUSE museum in Bruges. In 1994, “the Friends of the Castle” acquired of it.

 

The Restaurant

The actual restaurant, which occupies the major part of the left wing, was in the past the kitchen and “bakery”. This large room is entirely arched on intersecting ribs out of bricks including one great part apparent and is pickled.
In the back of the room, one still distinguishes the enormous chimney with his two doors for each furnace which was used to cook the bread.

Today, the Rooms of the castle accomodate you for the organization of your banquets, receptions, festivals, marriages, meetings/conferences --> Hiring of the rooms

 

- The Heraldry Room

In that room throne a monumental veined of white black marble chimney (height: 2m - width: 5m) decorated, on its coat, with the blazon of the family of the Lords of Trazegnies with the lettering of their device: “TAN QUE VIVE" (THAT LIVES).

 

The blazon of Trazegnies : escutcheon bandaged of gold and azure in the shade of a lion stitching on the whole, with the edge surrounded of mouths, placed on a coat of crimson doubled of hermine, struck and gold bunch, summoned of a crown of 5 florets - are surrounded of the gold collar of the “ Knights of the Golden Fleece” to which a ram is suspended.

 

- The MOÏSE ROOM

This room bears this name because of the large painting, which is fixed to the main wall, called "The Moïse" of Alexandre MARTIN (Great Price of Rome).

 

THE CELLARS :

- ROMANCE CELLARS :

The Romance cellars which exist still at present under the castle, date from XIth century, according to professor Simon Brigode. They are regarded as oldest of Belgium.

All indicates the Romanesque architecture most primitive of ottonien type, so characteristic within the limits of the old Kingdom of Lotharingie.

 

The GOTHIC CELLAR:

Under the site of the big tower of angle which collapsed in 1922, we can see a central pillar of typical mouluration of the "hennuyère" Gothic architecture of the XVIth century: capital with cut sides, bases and bole of column monostyle entirely out of blue stones of the country.

This column supports veins dividing the vault into 6 parts, made out of bricks.

 

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