INC'ROCK FESTIVAL

History Fiefdom of the abbey of Villers, a farm was created between 1160 and 1185 in a place that had recently been abandoned and quickly took the name of Sart-Risbart. The properties of the Cistercian abbey grew steadily over the centuries until it owned three farms and hundreds of bonniers. The parish of Saint-Aubain extended its prerogatives over the whole of Sart-Risbart. However, there was a chapel dedicated to the Virgin in the Middle Ages. In 1792, a larger chapel was built there and became independent in 1839 under the name of Sainte-Barbe. The creation of the Louvain/Namur causeway was at the origin of the development of the exploitation of the Opprebais stone quarry, which marked the local geography and the social structure of the population. Sart-Risbart is the village of the entity where agricultural activity is the most important. To see The castle-farm of Opprebais, archaeological and historical jewel of the commune. A dungeon was built in the 13th century (11 m 50) and gave access to a courtyard surrounded by a moat. A quadrilateral-shaped fortress with 4 circular towers came to be anchored there in the 14th century. From the end of the 16th century, the destination was purely agricultural. The Saint-Aubain Church with its Ancien Régime architecture. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)