Kasteel Ten Berghe

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Le château en bref

In the village of Koolkerke, north of Bruges, Ten Berghe Castle rises in its neo-Gothic silhouette amid moats, along the Dudzeelse Steenweg. The site, a seigneurial estate first attested in the second half of the 13th century, underwent several rebuilds; the protection order notes that its present configuration dates back at least to the early 18th century. Around 1877, the Antwerp architect Joseph Schadde enlarged and re-clad it in a neo-Gothic style that draws its motifs from Bruges architecture. It is one of his first castle projects, designed with particular attention to detail. The brick mansion, together with the service courtyard, the porter's lodge, the carriage house, the stables, the landscaped park, the ice house and the gloriette, forms a complex conceived as a whole, whose neo-Gothic, neo-Renaissance and neo-Flemish reception rooms are remarkably well preserved. The castle was entered in the Flemish inventory of immovable heritage in 2009, then protected as a monument by order of 19 February 2013. It is also listed among the recorded filming locations in Flanders.