Kasteel Beelaert

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Le château en bref

The Beelaert estate, located on Goedingenstraat in Afsnee, on the outskirts of Ghent, is a former pleasure house (lusthof) built in 1812 by the Beelaert family in a bend of the Lys. The residence, a double house of five bays under a Flemish tile roof, stands on a raised ground floor reached by a broad six-step flight of steps; a small wooden belfry crowns the ridge. It occupies the site of the "Goed ten Bossche", a fief with a farm, mentioned as early as the 14th century, whose former château is said to have been sold in 1767. The French-style garden shown on the Ferraris map (1778) gave way to a landscape park with a pond, already drawn on the first topographic map (1860–1873). In the 19th century, the Beelaert family later donated the estate, together with the neighbouring farms, to the public centre for social welfare (OCMW). The whole is listed in the Flemish inventory of immovable heritage.