Bueren Castle

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Le château en bref

Bueren Castle, formerly known as Goed Ter Elst or Kwatrecht Castle, is a moated château of almost square plan, built of brick and sandstone on two storeys under a slate roof, probably erected in the mid-16th century in the Renaissance style and enlarged at the end of the 19th century in a neo-Renaissance style. Surrounded by wide square moats, it is flanked by two symmetrical pavilions housing a carriage house, stables, staff quarters and octagonal garden pavilions, and is accompanied by an avenue of plane trees and an estate of some ten hectares at Melle. It takes its name from Count Christoffel de Bueren, an Austrian colonel who acquired it at the end of the 18th century, and according to the inventory it still belongs to one of his descendants.