Brasschaat Park

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Le château en bref

Brasschaat Park, in the centre of the municipality and south of the church, covers around 170 hectares and adjoins the Peerdsbos. It includes ponds, fountains, a rose garden, a deer park, sports grounds and woodland. Its eclectic château in the French style, U-shaped and with mansard roofs, was built in 1872 by the son of Count Auguste Reusens, who had acquired the estate in 1864 on the site of the Helhoeve, a manorial farm first mentioned in 1602 that had become a country residence in the 18th century. Two transverse wings were added to the château in 1897, followed by large two-level terraces overlooking the pond in 1909. The estate also comprises a carriage house, a neoclassical gardener's house dating from 1907, two gatehouses, two monumental entrances, and the Hemelhoeve, a large U-shaped farm of 1926 housing a riding school and a dairy café. An obelisk (1885) and a column (1841) were brought from Italy by Count Armand Reusens. Acquired by the municipality in 1949, the ensemble is a public space; it has been protected as a heritage landscape since 2009.