Puttenhove Castle

"Kasteel Puttenhove" is located in Ghent. The castle Puttenhove along the Putstraat is probably also originally an early medieval site with a moat with a separate, eight-shaped moat, upper and lower courtyard within a rectangular outer wall. The castle is still partly moated castle. The archives (of St. Peter's Abbey) date back to the 15th century. According to tradition, Philip II stayed there in 1549 before receiving the investiture as Count of Flanders in St Peter's Abbey in Ghent, which led some sources to label the castle as a royal domain. It was destroyed by the Calvinists in 1578. In the 17th century it was owned by the Triest family. The property was destroyed again by the armies of Louis XIV in 1708. The estate was described in 1730 as a dilapidated castle and courtyard. Since around 1830, the castle has been owned by the Soenens family. Presumably, the completely new, typical classicist castle was built around 1840 and was decorated in the course of the second half of the 19th century with authentic pieces by knight Fl. Soenens. The moats also largely disappeared and the park was laid out in landscape style, including exotic trees. A new avenue led in a northwesterly direction to the Kortrijksesteenweg. The former courtyard near the outer wall with a visible older core was given a screen façade and a new function as a caretaker's house and coach houses.

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