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Flemish government approved 2 million euros in renovation subsidies to sweeten the offer. As of August 2019 a buyer had still not been found.
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February 1953 the original association was liquidated and the castle was taken over by the Province of Antwerp. At first it housed the Province's Sterckshof Museum of Art Crafts, and later the Province's
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89:Coordinates
1645:Categories
1429:Sterckshof
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99:51°12′54″N
19:Sterckshof
1424:Het Steen
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190:Jesuits
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