Kasteel Kapellegoed

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Kapellegoed (“Goed ter Capellen”), Sint-Gerolfstraat 32 in Drongen (Ghent), is a moated castle whose core dates back to the 17th century. The estate appears in the registers of the aldermen of Ghent as early as 1398, and a document from 1771 mentions a “Triumfkasteel” surrounded by double moats. The original U-shaped château was transformed in 1852 by filling in the central recess, giving it a rectangular plan and a new seven-bay brick façade with a central projecting bay and a triangular pediment. It retains 17th-century vaulted cellars, a hall with grisaille paintings on canvas, salons with Romantic decoration from the second half of the 18th century, and a plain 18th-century staircase. In the grounds are square dovecotes standing in the moats, a garden pavilion with a mansard roof, a service building remodelled in the Neoclassical style by Louis Minard, an avenue of lime trees, and an icehouse built in 1857–1858 for the Stalins family. The château, its moats, park and outbuildings have been protected as a monument since 1997.