Castle Perwijsbroek

"Kasteeltje van Perwijsbroeck", modo "Castle of Coorebijter" after a Brussels family that lived in it for a long time (1901-1933) as a country estate.

Built circa 1850 on the site of an earlier redoubt from the Spanish era, to guard the nearby Nete crossing; Within the earthen ramparts were barracks, a prison and a chapel.

After the peace of Munster in 1648, the redoubt gave way to dwellings; the lands came into the hands of Johannes Baptist Van Holen, tax collector at Duffel; In 1849-1850 he had the houses demolished and replaced by a country house, a garden with pond, fenced on the street side with iron fence, was laid out to the south. Repaired after the heavy war damage of 1914 and purchased in 1933 by the municipality, which sold the mansion again after two years, but converted the garden, laid out in the second half of the 19th century, as a municipal park in 1934/6; the construction on the English model includes red horse chestnut, marsh cypress and fern beech. The open space to the north and northwest was transformed into parking.

Source:
https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/2601

Rudy Wuyts