En un regard
Le château en bref
Nokere Castle, also known as Casier Castle, in Nokere (Kruishoutem, East Flanders), is a former manorial seat predating the 16th century, which is said to have burned down in 1596. Mathieu-Xavier de Ghellinck, who acquired the lordship in 1727, had it rebuilt; two side wings were added between 1773 and 1783, which fixed its present neoclassical appearance. The estate later passed to the Vanhove, de Witte and Wasseige families, and since 1946 has belonged to Baron Casier, whose family renovated the interior. The neoclassical main block of the 18th century, flanked by two wings, is surrounded by water and by a park partly redesigned in the 18th-century tradition by the landscape architect René Pechère. Also surviving are a 17th-century entrance gate housing the tombstone of Jacob van Gavere, and a carriage house preserving carriages from the 18th and 19th centuries; a hunting lodge (Ruffo de Bonneval) is associated with the castle. The Vijverdamstraat follows a medieval dyke that gave rise to the ponds and the castle, and the historic core of the village of Nokere, linked to the castle by the dreef, is protected as one of the few castle villages in the municipality that remain almost intact.