Chateau de Gesves

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An agricultural building originally stood on the site of Gesves Castle.

In the fourteenth century , the lord of Gesves, Evrard de Bolland, in fulfillment of his military obligations, built a defensive tower nearby (medieval keep of the avouerie depending on Poilvache). His widow and son built a small fortified house, a fortress surrounded by water, equipped with a drawbridge and with outer walls two meters thick . The tower still stands next to the castle.

The gloomy fortress became a pleasant 16th-century residence in an L-shape against the keep, with a square turret in the centre. Count Léon de Limninghe gave the castle its present appearance in 1870 ; the castle was doubled in depth and the old facade was redecorated in neo-Gothic style with the addition of two turrets.
Only a wing that was used as stables and barns and the two corner towers on the stream remained of the farm .

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Source: Willem Vandenameele

Willem Vandenameele

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