Domein De Verlosser

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Le château en bref

De Verlosser estate, in Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle (Dilbeek), covers an enclosed park of roughly seven hectares in the late landscape style, which has remained fairly well preserved, around a brick and sandstone manor house. The building goes back to a gentleman's residence with three outbuildings existing around 1800. Owned by the Brussels merchant Guillaume Horis, it was acquired in 1833 by Caroline D'Aoust and Albert Bara, then passed to the Lyon family, to Aloïs Schmedding (1890) and, in 1909, to Henri Legrand and Laure Letu. Around 1880, the residence was transformed into an eclectic château. In 1929, the French congregation of the Sisters of the Saviour and of the Holy Virgin installed a boarding school and novitiate there, and the château became a convent and then a rest home. The building was enlarged in 1930 and, above all, in 1936 to plans by Brother Floribert. Occupied by the Germans during the Second World War, then briefly by Allied troops, the estate suffered a partial fire in 1952. It now houses a care centre for elderly people, supplemented in 2022 by a contemporary extension by the plusoffice architects practice.