Gaasbeek Castle [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Gaasbeek Castle
Gaasbeek Castle (), today a national museum, is located in the municipality of Lennik in the province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium.
History.
The fortified castle was erected around 1240 to defend the Duchy of Brabant against the County of Flanders. The castle was destroyed however by Brussels city troops in revenge for the assassination of Everard t'Serclaes, which was commanded by the Lord of Gaasbeek.
At the beginning of the 16th century the Dominium of Gaesbeeck was inherited by the House of Hornes; they
Reichskommissariat
Reichskommissariat () is the German designation for a type of administrative entity headed by a government official known as a "Reichskommissar" (). Although many different such offices existed primarily throughout the Imperial German and Nazi periods in a number of different fields (ranging from public infrastructure and spatial planning to ethnic cleansing) it is most commonly used to refer to the quasi-colonial administrative territorial entity established by Nazi Germany in several occupied countries during World War II. While officially located outside the German Reich in a legal sense