Vordenstein park

The Vordenstein domain is a park within the Belgian municipality of Schoten, northeast of Antwerp. It separated from the adjacent Peerdsbos wooded area via the E19 highway to the North. The Vordenstein domain become created it the 14th century out of the Hof ter Katen and the Hof van de Werve. At that time, the area had a in particular agrarian characteristic, with the feudal lord leasing patches of the land to diverse farmers.

Starting inside the 18th century, the domain progressively evolved right into a leisure property with a fort and an intensive pleasure garden, owned by way of a succession of wealthy households from Antwerp as a nation-state retreat. In 1980 most people of the park turned into finally sold by means of the Belgian state, and eventually opened to the general public. A smaller element in the middle of the domain stays privately owned via the De Pret family that inherited the domain at the beginning of the twentieth century.