Eggevoord Tower

En un regard

Le château en bref

Eggevoort Tower is a small pavilion of brick and white stone in Leopold Park, in Brussels’ European Quarter. It is the only surviving relic of the Eggevoort estate, a former lordship dependent on the Castellany of Brussels, whose castle, mill, ponds and brewery-inn have all disappeared. Regional publications date it to the 15th century, but another note judges it to be later than the medieval castle and says it may have been a hunting lodge. In the 18th century it served as a fishery, and it was then incorporated into the inn known as ‘Petit Paris’. The Dubois de Bianco family bought the estate in 1819. It later became Leopold Park, where the Royal Zoological Society opened the capital’s first zoo. The architect L. F. De Pauw carried out a thorough restoration of the tower around 1914 (a photograph caption gives 1918).