En un regard
Le château en bref
Koude Keuken Castle (‘Cold Kitchen’) stands in Sint-Andries, on the outskirts of Bruges, at Zandstraat 268-272. Access is by a long double avenue of beech trees leading to a stone gateway flanked by the former gatehouse. The moated castle occupies the centre of a park. The site is cited as a fief of the Burg of Bruges in 1369, under the name ‘goed ter Straeten’ in 1435, and then as ‘Coudekeuken’ in 1530. Sanderus’s engraving of 1641 shows a layout with a haute-cour and a basse-cour. Around 1900, Jozef Kervyn de Lettenhove, who had become the owner through a public sale, commissioned the Bruges architect Charles De Wulf to carry out a ‘restoration’. The residential block was given an L-shaped plan, a stair tower was raised, and the 1641 entrance gatehouse was kept. After the Second World War, the municipality turned the estate into a recreational area. The castle later became a restaurant and was sold to a private owner in 2004.