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Abandoned castle in Belgium.

Castle Goorhof, or Castle Huger is a castle in the Belgian town of Grobbendonk. The English country style castle was built between 1872 and 1876 by the builders Ernest and Julien Dieltjens. The castle was built for the Antwerp shipbuilder Franz Huger. He had two children, Jules Huger and Maria-Catherina Huger. When Franz Huger died, the castle went to Maria-Catherina who was married to Henri Oedenkoven. They had a daughter Suzanne Oedenkoven. As a thank you that the castle survived the First World War without damage, a chapel was added in 1921. In World War II, however, things went wrong. The tower of the castle and its roofs burned down. After the war, the castle was restored, but much less special and beautiful than before. The balconies on the tower disappeared and the tower also became much less large and high. The dormer windows were changed and the illusion in the roof ridges disappeared. After Suzanne, daughter of Henri Oederkoven and Maria-Catherina Huger died, the castle passed to her daughter, Solange de Namur, daughter of Charles De Namur and Suzanne Oederkoven. She married Fernando Sorela Y Del Corral, a Spaniard, and had a son, Ramon Sorela de Namur. When Ramon grew up he went to Spain, to set up his hotel in Marbella. After earning a lot of money there, he sold the hotel to restore the Grobbendonkse Goorhof to how it was before the fire in 1944. In 1992 the plans were announced to the press. The project had to be completed by Ramon's fiftieth birthday in 1995. When the project seemed more expensive than expected and the bank turned off the money, the project was shut down in 1995. The castle had to be sold for 48 million francs (1.2 million euros) to the Dutch N.V. Bever Holding. When fires broke out in eight different places in February 1999, much of the castle that had been vacant for four years was largely destroyed. The castle has been empty ever since. In 2009 N.V. Bever Holding handed over the castle to real estate agent H. Ceusters in Brasschaat to sell the castle, which was never successful. On the night of September 28, 2016, the castle burned down again, leaving only the facades standing in certain places in the castle. Nothing is known about the future of the castle. Team Urbex SAF