Spermaliehoeve

* Bruggesteenweg nr. 41. Known as "SPERMALIEHOF" according to the facade stone in the gate. Protected as a monument by Ministerial Decree of June 10, 2002. Former abbey farm, operated for farm tourism alongside agricultural business since 1972. Historical farm dating back to the monastery and chapel "Our Lady of Newland," located in the hamlet of Honkevliet, later called Sint-Pieterskapelle, founded by a certain Gela in the year 1200; in 1235 officially joined the Cistercian order. 1241-1246: the monastery moves to Sijsele and is given the new name "Our Lady of New Jerusalem, known as Spermalie"; the monastery in Sint-Pieterskapelle becomes an abbey farm. The latter was confiscated during the French period in 1797. Quality rebuilding farm signed by architect T. Raison (Bruges) and dated by the facade stone "Spermaliehof rebuilt in 1920", surpassing the typical rebuilding farms in style and aligning with the construction program indicated by architects T. Raison and A. Ronse in the book "Fermes et constructions rurales en West-Flandre." The horse mill was not rebuilt; the northeast access avenue was replaced by an access road on the northwest side. Reconstruction with emphasis on regional style characteristics according to the layout: U-shaped, nearly closed arrangement of farmhouse, two stable wings, and barn, respectively to the north, west, south, and west of a partly grazed, partly paved courtyard; on the north side accessible via a graveled access road with a basket-arched driveway and corresponding pedestrian passage; plantings: orchard to the northwest; remnants of the original four-sided walling to the north and northwest; materials: whitewashed brick construction above a plinth; Flemish tiles for short overhanging gabled roofs equipped with hanging gutters, roof windows under gabled roofs or climbing in the stable wings; traditional framing according to cross frames with profiled center style, small rod division, and shutters; regional architectural elements: (side) gable façades with wall braidings also for roof windows; crowning; (corner) buttresses; rectangular window openings recessed in basket-arch frames; basket-arch doors; entrance gate with a statue of Our Lady and the coat of arms of the then owners supported by buttresses with cuts leading to a pyramidal top piece; layout: farmhouse of five bays and one room bay to the right, including cellar opening; stable wings with bakehouse right next to the farmhouse; barn of nine bays (cruck frame) with a two-part cart shed section on the left. DEPARTMENT ROHM WEST FLANDERS, Cell Monuments and Landscapes, archive nr. 1811. GENERAL STATE ARCHIVES BRUSSELS, DVG., 11848. RONSE A., RAISON T, Fermes-types et constructions rurales en West-Flandre, Bruges, 1918.

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