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Le château en bref
Loveld Castle, in Aalter, is an early twentieth-century country residence, built in 1912 to plans by the architect Octave Flanneau for Count Karel de Hemricourt de Grunne, who served as mayor of Aalter from 1921 to 1932. The building, formerly known as the ‘Château d’Aalter’, has an L-shaped plan, combines brick and natural stone beneath a large slate roof with two levels of attic, and belongs to a simplified neoclassicism known as the ‘French style’. The reception rooms (hall, library, salons and dining room) are decorated in the Louis XVI taste. The Flemish inventory records that certain elements of the interior decoration, namely painted panelling and marble fireplaces, are said to come from the Château de Laval in France, which belonged to the Montalembert family, from which the Count’s wife was descended. This provenance is given as a reported tradition, not as an established fact. The castle sits within a park laid out with a network of star-shaped avenues and sightlines, which remains legible despite partial housing development.