Hof ter Logien

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Hof ter Logien, in Ossel (Brussegem, Merchtem), is a former farmstead that became a pleasure house and later a country residence. Mentioned as early as 1532 as a farm with a dwelling house, barn, cowsheds and orchard, it was acquired by Jan Hallemans in the first half of the 17th century; a stone farmhouse built around 1630 forms the core of the present house. In 1705, Josse-Hubert van den Vyvere, mayeur of Brussegem, transformed the dwelling into a "speelhuys", of which stone gables dated 1706 survive. The Baron Guillaume van Haren reorganised the house around 1764–1767; in 1859, the architect Joseph Schadde directed its modernisation. The seven-bay country house, under a tall slate Mansard roof, opens to the north through a double stone staircase with a wrought-iron balustrade; to the west stands a gate tower serving as a dovecote. The landscape park, laid out between 1870 and 1880 by Edouard Keilig, and the former stables belong to the estate of the Château of Ossel, listed in the Flemish inventory of historic parks and gardens.