Kasteel Ter Laken (Booischot)

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Le château en bref

The Hof Ter Laken estate, in Booischot (Heist-op-den-Berg), covers some thirty hectares near the Grote Nete and is approached through a monumental avenue of limes. At its centre stands a Flemish neo-Renaissance château, whose remarkably well-preserved interior includes a neo-Gothic dining room, a domestic chapel and a carved chimneypiece. The house was rebuilt in 1871-1874 for Alfons della Faille de Leverghem, the first mayor of Booischot, on a site already occupied in the Middle Ages by a moated hof; the della Faille de Leverghem family held the estate in the nineteenth century. The estate also comprises a carriage house, a farm, a forester's house, an orangery, an aviary and a former ice house known as the boskapel. The château and estate have been listed as a monument since the Flemish decree of 5 April 2005. Owned by the municipality and the Kempens Landschap foundation since 2018, the site has been undergoing restoration of the château and the carriage house since April 2024, with a view to housing a heritage accommodation facility for groups and a brewery.