Castle Three Towers

Feudal property, depending on the land of Dendermonde, until the end of the 16th century in the possession of a family of Ursene mentioned since the second quarter of the 13th century; in 1753 the former castle with dependencies was sold to G.J. Boote; since then it has been inherited by the Spoelbergs. Although a castle is mentioned as early as the 16th century, the current castle dates from 1786; Vast and beautiful English-style park with moats and ponds, fed by the Molenbeek. Castle with square plan of five bays, two storeys with a high basement and a low attic, covered with a hipped roof (slates) with skylights and marked by the balustrade around the top and by the high chimneys. Three façades lapped by the wide moat, the fourth side is accessible via a terrace conceived as a wide platform; to the left of this, the plaque with year of construction "XXVI AP/ MDCCLXXXVI". The decapping of the façade plaster mutilated the original classicist character. Currently visible brick masonry with sparse use of sandstone, including for the cornerstones. Rectangular wall openings with upper and lower sills of bluestone, closing and corner blocks of sandstone. At the entrance, a carriage house with a date stone in the side wall "14 May 1787". Formerly plastered brick construction; The façade is rhythmed by five round arches of brick on slender pilasters of sandstone with simple capitals. In the side walls, visible seam of the widening of the building. To the left of the castle, former farm, the core of which dates back to the 17th-18th centuries but modified. Single-storey farmhouse with gable roof (tiled); brick construction with the use of sandstone for the original doorposts with quarter-hollow course and negro blocks; wooden lintels and windows from the 19th-20th centuries; In the cemented side gables, preserved top and shoulder pieces and presumably braids. To the left, diagonally planted service wing of brick rhythmed by round-arched arcades and round-arched windows. A little further in the park is a water mill that has been thoroughly rebuilt but whose old core is indicated in the side gable on the stream side, namely a brick plinth bordered with a profile of sandstone. Also a detached and now disused chapel in neo-medieval style, with the date 1884 in a memorial stone. Furthermore, a gazebo under a pleasant high hipped roof (tiles), from the 19th century, and a stand-alone ice cellar (perhaps fourth quarter of the 18th century?), called "the spire" by the locals; Underground substructure of brick with a pyramidal above-ground crown of greenish sandstone.

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