Kruishoutem or Aaishove Castle

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Le château en bref

Aaishove Castle, also known as Kruishoutem (Kruisem) Castle, is a moated château in the Louis XIII style, built around 1630–1634 by Karel-Robrecht de Jauche on the foundations of an earlier fortified castle. Symmetrical, of brick and sandstone on a hard-stone plinth, it is roofed with slate, has two tall chimney stacks and is flanked by four corner towers. The lordship of Aaishove, first mentioned in 1227, became a barony in 1645 and a county in 1670. In the second half of the eighteenth century, the vander Meere family raised the central block and decorated the château with armorial pediments. A park of about 13 hectares, with ponds and relandscaped in the English style in the nineteenth century, surrounds it, and a restoration at the beginning of the twentieth century was directed by the architect Valentin Vaerwyck. The estate has been protected since 2002.