Ravaart Castle

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Ravaart Castle, in Peutie (Vilvoorde), also known as Moerman Castle, is a Neoclassical château built in the 1860s on the site of Ravaart, on the northern edge of the Floordambos. Recorded in the cadastre in 1863 (the literature gives 1865), it was built for Sébastien Detige of Ixelles and then, according to the literature, for his daughter Anna, widow of Alfons Rayé. A bay was added on each side in 1870 and, around 1884, a root cellar topped by an orangery was built against the wall of the eastern garden. The name Moerman comes from the chemist Leon Moerman, husband of Alice Rayé and registered owner in 1911; the painter Alice Moerman lived there. The seven-bay château, rendered, with a central projecting section and a curved pediment on the main façade, retains a hall with a straight staircase, a suite of reception rooms with stucco cornices and marble fireplaces, and a corner room lined with painted canvases depicting urban views. It stands in a park of about 24 hectares, 16 of them landscaped, with an eight-shaped pond, an enclosed kitchen garden and beech avenues, and its residential function has been maintained.