Hoeve 't Blauw Kasteelke

Moerdijkstraat no. 2. Historic farm "'t Blauw Kasteelke" or "Goet Ter Mandere", with farmhouse whose cellars date from the 13th century. History. The farm was the foncier of the seigneury "ter Mandel" or "ter Mandere", belonging to the lord of Ingelmunster, from 1583 the de Plotho d'Ingelmunster family. The farm may have been traced back to the period of the Great Reclamations (1000-1250) as one of the so-called Mining Works. "Einzelhöfe", large farms that played a not insignificant role in the reclamation of the landscape in the 11th-13th centuries, in most cases walled by a moat and built on a slight embankment as a "moated site". In the last quarter of the 13th century, the Count of Flanders, Guy of Dampierre, pursued an English-minded economic policy. In doing so, he clashed with his liege lord, the French king Philip IV the Fair, with whom he broke his feudal allegiance in January 1297. This led to a French invasion of Flanders. After the conquest of Ingelmunster by the French, in October of the same year, after the intervention of Pope Boniface VIII, a temporary truce was concluded between representatives of the French and English kings and the Flemish count in Sint-Baafs-Vijve, according to tradition on the farm "'t Blauw Kasteelke". According to De Flou, sources from 1382 mention a Jans van der Mandere, and a document from 1502 mentions a "court of men and lordships in Sente Baefs-Vive". In 1617, the then resident Barbara De Bevere, widow of Joannes Stercke, received permission to build a chapel "Ter Mandele" on the driveway of the farm (disappeared). The chapel was looted during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). A wooden statue of the Virgin Mary from the chapel is still preserved on the farm. On a war map from 1694, the farm is mentioned as "Blanc Castel". In the land book of Sint-Baafs-Vijve (1763) the property is mentioned as "eene behuijsde hofstede, met de motte ende wallen daer ront omme, genaemt 't Goet ter Mandel". On the map of the third canton "Droogenbroothoeck" the farm is shown within a rectangular two-part moat with upper court and lower court division. On the southern upper court there is an east-west oriented house, on the northern courtyard an elongated volume to the east along the moat (in place of the current volume) and along the north side of the moat, to the west next to the entrance. The farm had a direct driveway from the Driekoningenstraat, along which there was a chapel just outside the ramparts to the west. On a map that is recorded at the same time by the same cartographer C.Ph. Minne, the second country building (barn) is not on the north side, but on the west side along the moat, parallel to the eastern country building. In 1767 a new imposing barn was erected, with a central Tudor arched barn gate and articulated by wall dams (now gone). The current appearance of the farmhouse probably dates back to the 18th century. On the Ferraris map (1770-1778) the farm is mentioned as "Chateau Termander" and is shown as a rectangular two-part moat with an upper courtyard on which a house with a vegetable or ornamental garden at the back, connected by a bridge to the courtyard where four buildings stand, two by two on either side of the yard that is used as an orchard. In 1815 there were still two parallel elongated buildings in the yard, accompanied by four smaller buildings, including a bakehouse, stalls and a dovecote, cf. cadastral map. In 1835, according to the land registry, the farm was owned by Charles de Montblanc from Paris. For unknown reasons, the farm is called Blue Castle from the 19th century, on the Atlas der Buurtwegen (1844) the farm is mentioned as "Blue Castle, ferme". In 1890, the land registry records an extension, the barn on the south side and the demolition of two small country buildings. The chapel along the driveway will also be demolished. In the course of the 20th century, the farmhouse was renovated, most of the moats were filled in and the dilapidated dovecote demolished. Around 1987, the imposing barn from 1767 was demolished and replaced by a new utility building. In the meantime, the remaining barn volume has been rebuilt beyond recognition. Description. Partly paved yard accessible from the northeast side. Only the north-western part of the moat has been preserved. Parallel farm buildings in the courtyard have been replaced or rebuilt beyond recognition. On the south side of the yard is a farmhouse on a slight elevation, accessible by a narrow path between low brick walls, rhythmed by pilasters. Path closed by two so-called "Gatekeeper's houses", on the spot where the bridge over the moat to the Upper Court used to be situated. Buildings on a rectangular floor plan in whitewashed brick construction on a pitched plinth, under hipped roofs in black Flemish tiles. Whitewashed brick farmhouse of seven bays with pitched plinth, under gable roof in Flemish tiles with eaves. Central central bay enclosed between projecting wall dams and ending in skylight. Pediment with incorporated natural stone on which coat of arms of the lords of Ingelmunster, the Plotho d'Ingelmunster, probably 18th-century (shield adopted in 1956 by Sint-Baafs-Vijve as municipal coat of arms). Rectangular wall openings, renewed in the course of the 20th century (concrete lintels), with wooden sash windows. East side façade with three small windows in gable. Interior largely renewed. New floors and ceilings, new brick fireplaces. Some remaining interior elements: preserved beam grille with simple beam keys (kitchen), 18th-century wing door (salon), wooden ham cupboard flanking the fireplace. Cellar with two parallel barrel vaults, originally separated by a central row of segmental arches on columns, which was later bricked up, cf. bricked-in column with Romanesque button capital. Similar examples from Kortrijk suggest a 13th-century date. Behind a former bricked-up wall are two mitre-shaped candle niches and a round masonry tube towards the bottom. According to literature, this is a subterranean passage that leads from the basement in a northeasterly direction. In reality, this opening probably indicates the existence of a well integrated into the basement. LAND REGISTRY ARCHIVES WEST FLANDERS, 207: Mutation sketches, Sint-Baafs-Vijve, 1890/15, 1913/3. STATE ARCHIVES OF KORTRIJK, Fonds de Plotho, no. 633: "Caerte figuratief van het goet ter Mandel", by C.P. Minne (1763). CLAERHOUT M., Demedts-land in word and image, in Leiesprokkels 2005-2006, yearbook 9, 2006, p. 35-49. DEBONNE V., Medieval house cellars in the Kortrijk city centre ca. 1200-1350, Kortrijk, 2005. DE FLOU K., Dictionary of toponymy of western Flanders, Flemish Artesia, the land of den Hoek, the counties of Guines and Boulogne, and a part of the county of Ponthieu, Part II, Bruges, 1921, columns 140-141; Part X, Bruges, 1930, column 30. Documentation folder Wielsbeke, part I, p. 73a. PAUWELS H., Sint-Baafs-Vijve, een dorp, Sint-Baafs-Vijve, 1978, p. 16-19.

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