En un regard
Le château en bref
The small château of Ter Beck (also called Ter Beken or Terbeek), at Elsegem, takes its name from the former seigneury of Ter Beke. Archives from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries describe it as a feudal motte surrounded by water. A tradition recorded in the inventory, expressed in the conditional, holds that the estate belonged to the Order of the Temple; it is said to have replaced an older farm, the ‘Goed ter Beken’, a fief of the seigneury of Doorne. The present building bears a cartouche dated 1687. A water mill is attested there as early as 1421 and was demolished around 1820; the Ferraris map labels it ‘Maison ter Beke’ and shows it as a farm. In the mid-nineteenth century, the site still occupied a rectangular island surrounded by moats and a two-part pond. Barns and stables, dating from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, form a U-shaped ensemble with the main house.