Castle de Pélichy

The castle de Pélichy in the Belgian district of Gentbrugge is a 19th-century castle with a park and pond. It is one of the few castles still found in Gentbrugge. Once, this municipality counted more than twenty. Octave de Meulenaere acquired land on the Oude Brusselseweg in Gentbrugge through his marriage to Ida Lauwick. She was a daughter of the marriage between Ludovicus Lauwick and a daughter of Bernardus Haemelinck, who owned 52 hectares of land in Gentbrugge. Octave de Meulenaere was the first president of the Court of Appeal and at the Assize Court in Ghent. In 1883, he made plans to build a castle that was fully completed in neoclassical style in 1885. The estate was walled, equipped with a cold house, greenhouses, and an aviary with a house for the gardener, a rampart with a bridge, and a driveway gate.

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