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Zonnebeke Castle occupies the site of an Augustinian abbey (1072–1796), whose canons were affiliated with the Arrouaise order. After the revolutionary confiscation, the Parisian merchant J.B. Delaveleye acquired the abbey in 1797; most of the buildings were demolished at the beginning of the 19th century, with the exception of the abbot's house and the abbey farm (1671). The Iweins family of Ypres bought most of the estate in 1841; Emmanuel Henri Iweins added a neo-Gothic annexe to the abbot's house and had the park around the pond remodelled. The estate was destroyed during the First World War; the family, who returned in summer 1919, first lived in caravans. The castle was rebuilt around 1924 in a pseudo-Norman style to plans by the architect T. Raison (Bruges), using salvaged materials from the abbey. The municipality bought the castle in 1982 and the Zonnedaele manor (1933) in 2011. Since 2004 the castle has housed the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, and since 2013 the former manor garden has been home to the Passchendaele Memorial Gardens.