Herenhuis 't Kasteeltje

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Klein Kasteel is a classical town house set in a walled garden at Sint-Maartensplein 13 in Moorsele (Wevelgem). It was built in the second half of the 18th century for Joseph Cornillie, a major linen merchant who, from 1750 onwards, bought up the work of home-based weavers in order to market it. His son François acquired the Château de Moorsele in 1808. The house then passed to the painter and owner Pepin Lowie, and was sold in 1887 to the Religieuses de l'Enfant-Jésus, who used it first as a school and then as a retirement home for French nuns. The priest-poet Ceasar Gezelle lived there from 1933 to 1939.