Kasteel Wurfeld

Maaseik, Belgium, Belgium

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Kasteel Wurfeld (also called Kasteel van Wurfeld) is a historic moated castle and now a four‑star hotel in the hamlet of Wurfeld, part of the municipality of Maaseik in Limburg, Belgium, located at Kapelweg 60 and named “Sans Souci” after later extensions.

The building was founded around 1640 by the brothers Willem and Jacob Croll, who were canons at the Our Lady chapter in Maaseik, and they also built the nearby Sint‑Laurentiuskapel together with a moated two‑storey residential house on top of a vaulted cellar, which remains the oldest core of the present castle.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries the castle was expanded and altered: in 1840 it was sold to a private owner, in 1900 it was enlarged by Ludovic Nagels, and further extensions in eclectic style were carried out in 1913 and 1938 by Stephanie Nagels and Adelin de Fraipont, while the original chapel and castle were never confiscated during the French revolutionary period and remained property of the parish until the 1840 sale.