Kasteel Pulhof

En un regard

Le château en bref

North of Wijnegem, along the 's Gravenwezelsteenweg, the Pulhof is one of those country seats on the outskirts of Antwerp that have kept their double belt of water. A wide outer moat encloses the whole park, while a second, rectangular moat, now dry, surrounds the buildings, which are reached by a brick bridge. The southern front building, inherited from the moated stronghold of the 15th and 16th centuries, presents a single storey of brick and sandstone between round corner towers, around a square gate tower pierced by a stone arch. The main house, to the north, was rebuilt around 1900 in neo-Louis XVI style by the architect Ernest Stordiau, reusing the earlier volume: an L-shaped plan, a slate mansard roof, a round tower with a spire and an entrance projection with a pediment carried by Doric columns. Restored after the Second World War, the estate has been protected as a monument and as a village landscape since 1994.