Kasteel Ter Weiden

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Le château en bref

Ter Weiden Castle, in Kalken (municipality of Laarne), is a neoclassical manor house built in 1869–1870 for the notary Adolphe Tibbaut (1824–1895), who was also burgomaster of Kalken. The plot, recorded in the cadastral register in 1868 as a pleasure garden, bears the date 1869 on its façade; the stables and coach house followed in 1870–1873. The rectangular building, of brick with a central projecting bay, rendered quoins and bluestone elements, has five bays beneath a mansard roof of slate with a central dormer and pediment. The interior features a monumental hall, stucco ceilings and marble fireplaces. The nineteenth-century landscaped park includes a winding pond, a moat, an orchard, a walled kitchen garden and a concrete bridge imitating tree trunks. The estate remained in the family (Jules, then Werner Tibbaut, burgomaster of Kalken from 1926 to 1971) before becoming, in 1972, a reception centre for children placed by the courts, the "Home Werner Tibbaut". It has been protected as a monument since 14 July 2004.