ROUTE 1 link to download the PDF file Password: MDLM (ease of printing) http://www.fichier-pdf.fr/2010 / 10/31/ballades-feluysiennes / WALKS FELUYSIENNES 3.3 km Alain GRAUX Illustration Michel Gailly
PARKWAY FROM CHATEAU DE FEUDAL FELUY Village life and general appearance are governed with rural life and location since the Middle Ages, blue stone quarries: the small granite. Who says
carriè.ret said
Septic: these are now filled with water.
Terrils: here called "Fiennes" now covered with trees.
Masters career: the stately homes are often called "Castles".
Workers: rocteurs, dealers, sculptors have left many buildings on their brands that can be seen in passing. Thus
careers have shaped the street Crombize, Scaron Street, Place du Petit Moulin. We will return the masters career demanded the opening of roads (paved) channel (Charleroi - Brussels), the railroad to sell their products and to avoid isolation from the other basins operating in stone.
The general appearance of the center goes back to the medieval castle with the church, the mill and the brewery commonplace.
LE CHATEAU (1)
Built to the front at the end of the fourteenth century by Eustace Bousies tower porch with imposing drawbridge topped with a telltale twin weapons of Renesse / Rubempre and Egmond, dated 1614.
The rest of the castle was demolished in the eighteenth century, it rebuilt the castle while retaining the classic balcony bathed in the "breeding ground for geese."
A major restoration in 1940 left the dock carved.
The castle is inhabited now by Mr. and Mrs. Decoster who bear conservation.
We head to Trichon, we can see to the left of the pond, the brewery
De Volder (2)
old brewery which became commonplace Hostel du Cygne and the brewery Zerquera the early nineteenth century. She ended its activities around 1940. All around the
Trichon, we will notice townhouses career.
Before the castle
Trichon (3
built by master Nopère career, which shaped the stones of the Royal Palace in Brussels and brought back to the grid, you can see bullet holes in the Revolution of 1830, note the Japanese tour (loft) 4 on the right building;
the right, the house
Dethier (eighteenth century) (5).
left, the
mill (6)
attested since the twelfth century and flourished until the war 1914-1918.
We borrow the small alley Trichon (7)
with facades of small houses carriers.
Going clockwise, the Hotel Dieu
(8)
built in the seventeenth century by the family Wani; masters career
It then follows the street Saint George, we see left the castle
Breda (nineteenth century) (9).
Farther right,
the Notre-Dame de Lorette built in l75l by Jean-Philippe Capitte, master Career
We now follow the path said Boulouffe (former mayeur sixteenth century) (10)
we meet -
the "Manoir du Capitaine " (11)
apart hotel , old stables built in part around 1750, the former seat of the lordship of Croquet, a text l72l described "country house and garden with fruit trees, shrubbery trimmed star elm and white wooden house supposed to bonniers of land with 28. Here was also a brewery, the brewery Lechien.
It goes to the right following the path of
Tremor (12).
As the stone that the PAC has placed on the fountain
the same name (13)
an earthquake occurred on September l8 1692 brought forth this fountain at the same time as the new source GERONSTERE "at Spa
We emerge as" a causeway Familleureux "14
The house on the left is a former manufactured chicory.
We now follow the road towards the village center, left new municipal buildings replace the
ballodrome (15)
Feluy was eleven times Belgian champion ball ball, this ballodrome was located on the site says "Dower" so called from the fourteenth century. That is also what was implanted Saint Roch Cemetery.
La Chapelle Saint-Roch (16)
was erected in 1766. Before the war there invoked the saint on August 16 for fever and sudden death.
The beautiful building located on the east side
'école Catholic (17)
was built in 1856, the Count of Blois Frederic Ysendoorn who donated to the town (then a hospital and school for half the the other half);
later, right
St. Joseph's Chapel (18) placed there in 1813;
We now follow the Rue de Marche (19) until the local school
, as shown in the pediment, was built in 1882 (20).
Later, at right "
the Cribs" (21), the first known map dates from 1726. In 1889, archers Feluy, founded in 1376, donated by the municipality, while keeping to the enjoyment.
Continuing our journey, the imposing
Haillebaude the farm (22) founded in the fifteenth century but the current buildings were erected in 1755 by Jerome Gods, the tower was topped by a pinnacle.
We now follow the drève (23) leading to the castle
Miremont , (24) is that in l85l Francis Lalieux he built this castle on the plans of Raymond Carlier, Nivelles, now his descendants are first used to go hunting, symposia, etc.. There were in the park, a windmill, which disappeared around 1870;
we take the path (25) leading to the mill to return to the place Feluy (26).
CHURCH St. Aldegonde (27)
before our eyes, the church grew too small in 1722 as indicated by the anchors. If you enter the building, one will notice the vaulted ceiling of the tower that is older, the keystone indicates 1555, is a vault called Plantagenet.
The church had to undergo in 1585 the fury of the iconoclasts from Brussels, so we rebuilt the three aisles, the altar was erected St. Aldegonde in 1589, the Virgo in 1635.
The early church was given in 1177 at the Abbey of Good Hope by Robert and Hugo Harvengt.
Returning to the outside, we turn to the right, the hall was at the location of the building closing the onsite restaurant called the Ferns in the past
"
the Chabotière " (27A).
David Lane (28) the name of the stonemason who lived David Liss in the seventeenth century, we come together to reach the mill, the river Graty (29), called here " seuwière the mill, "
Passing through the streets of Coulette (30) we pass the house called" The
Clipotia "
The river ran through the middle of the road where the lapping of the water
We walk up to the Fountain
Coulette including stone placed in 1848, recalls the memory of the trip to the Holy Land as carried Victor Lalieux and was knighted the Holy Sepulchre.
We continue to the entrance of the castle
Scaron (31)
where we see (especially in winter)
the rustic bridge (32), curiosity of the last century, former residence of Baron Jacques of Diksmuide. The castle was at the beginning of the century a Trappist monastery, was formerly a residence of teachers whose first career was Jan Scaron the seventeenth century;
We go to
Centennial Square (33),
we see the tree of "Centennial" (from Belgium) and the monument to the Belgian soldiers in 1940; we reach
lime of Espinette (34)
filed in 1944 and planted by the Cure Bayot December 20, 1762,
The old rectory (on your left) currently being restored, was once the seat of the lordship of tenaules of Good Hope said Espinette (see Drive # 2), currently head of the
House Memory (35)
exhibitions are held quarterly .
continue on Main Street and walk past the People's House
(36)
was once the home of the Masters Pennart carriers.
We are well on the High Street (37) and back on the village square
not far from our starting point.
Plan
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We descend 
