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Le château en bref
Vinderhoute Castle, in Vinderhoute (Lievegem, East Flanders), is a former seigneurial castle surrounded by a moat and a park, belonging to the ring of castles around Ghent. According to the Flemish inventory, it was around 1544 that councillor Lieven van Pottelsberghe, receiver of the State domains in Flanders and lord of the village, is said to have replaced the former manor house with the present castle, which was initially L-shaped; one wing was demolished in the mid-nineteenth century. The building today consists only of a rectangular block with rendered façades under a hip roof, in a traditional style, set in a moated park, with an entrance gate between blue stone pillars topped with vases and a service building with a nineteen-bay arcade. The castle and its immediate surroundings (Kasteellaan, Meirestraat, Sint-Annadreef) have been protected by ministerial decree of 10 November 1995.