Joseph Schadde

Joseph Schadde was a nineteenth-century architect from Antwerp, whom the Flemish protection order for the château ten Berghe presents as a leading architect. Around 1877, he enlarged and redressed this château at Koolkerke, near Bruges, in a neo-Gothic style that borrows its motifs from Bruges architecture. The order regards it as one of his first château projects, notable for a care for detail that extends not only to the building but to the whole estate, down to the neo-Gothic, neo-Renaissance and neo-Flemish salons.