Kasteel Winssinger

En un regard

Le château en bref

Winssinger Castle, also known as Kasteel van Fletté, stands in Itterbeek (Dilbeek). As early as 1770–1778, the Ferraris Map shows a modest seigneurial estate north-east of the village centre; at the end of the eighteenth century it belonged to Philippe Fletté de Flettenfeld. According to the Flemish inventory, the castle was supposedly rebuilt at the centre of the park after a fire in 1789. In 1883, Léopold Winssinger commissioned the alterations that gave it its eclectic appearance; a "W" appears on the coat of arms on the balcony. The main block, five bays wide across two storeys and a basement, is covered by a hipped roof; its rendered façades bear false string courses at ground-floor level. The north façade is flanked by two late nineteenth-century octagonal turrets and, above the entrance, a covered balcony; the south façade, remodelled, has a central arched projecting bay. The estate retains a brick coach house with three round arches and a turret-shaped dovecote of brick rendered in red, under a tent roof. After Léopold Winssinger's death in 1906, the estate was gradually broken up; the castle was renovated in the 1980s, with the addition of a winter garden on the east façade and the redesign of the park around a large pond.