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Le château en bref
Mullen Castle, also known as Wolfskerke Castle, is a small eclectic residence of brick and bluestone built in 1893 at Opbrakel (Brakel), in the hamlet of Wolfskerke, near the farm "Hof te Wolfskerke". This former farm of the Benedictine abbey of Ename belonged, under the French period, to the Mulle family of Ghent, later established at Tielt under the name Mulle de Terschueren. It was Senator Adèle Mulle de Terschueren who had the castle built in 1893, together with a caretaker's lodge, an entrance gate and an ice house, and who equipped the estate with farm buildings that were modern for the period. The building combines neo-Gothic elements of English inspiration: two storeys on a high plinth, pitched roofs edged with bluestone and topped with ball finials, tall decorative brick chimneys, and a rectangular tower with a crenellated parapet on corbelling. The ice house, along the former sunken lane, today serves as a refuge for bats. The castle is used as a second home.