Kasteel ter Linden

En un regard

Le château en bref

Ter Linden Castle, in Ternat (Flemish Brabant), is a country estate whose core dates back to the seventeenth century. The hamlet of Terlinden belonged to the Abbey of St Gertrude in Nivelles, which collected the tithe there until the end of the Ancien Régime; the estate was then known as "Te Busesijpe". In 1727, the Brussels knight Jean-Baptiste Pangaert acquired it. Around 1770, his son Pierre-Joseph owned a manor house, a farm, a garden with parterres, ponds and a motte surrounded by water. Alexander Stuckens, the first owner to live there permanently, had the farm buildings demolished around 1884. Around 1910, under Julien Liebaert (1840-1930), the castle took on its present appearance and the name "Terlinden". It is an offset L-shaped complex in brick with numerous sandstone elements. The nineteenth-century wing is flanked by a large square tower with a tent roof, and a linking chapel connects it to the older wing. The landscape park from the late nineteenth century, with its canal-shaped pond, surrounds the house, which is now a private residence.