Château La Motte

En un regard

Le château en bref

Château La Motte stands on the Lumbeekstraat in Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle (Dilbeek, Flemish Brabant), on a former castle mound (motte) to which it probably owes its name. Neoclassical in style, it was built in 1773 to designs by Laurent-Benoît Dewez, one of the leading architects of the Austrian Netherlands, for Pieter-Jozef Mertens and Petronelle Servaes. Owned by the municipality of Dilbeek since 1981, it was restored in the 1990s and subsequently assigned as an annex to the Dilbeek cultural centre. Protected as a monument, together with its park, since 1986, it is surrounded by an estate whose original layout, rudimentary in character, has largely survived, whereas most of the plantings date from after the First World War. From the park, the neoclassical façade stands out against the village church.