Top 17 Castles around Anzegem

Even if you only pass through, the tranquility and grandeur still leave something behind. It also gives you a bit of energy that you will certainly need in Nokere.

Today, the castle is home to the Vrijzinnig Centrum Liedts (Liedts Free Centre), which gives the building a contemporary cultural and social function. The park, still open to the public, serves as Oudenaarde's green lung, connecting the rich history of the Liedts family with the daily life of the city. It's a lovely place to stroll.

Liedts Castle After the demolition of Oudenaarde's former city walls, part of this vacant land was sold to the prominent Liedts family. Charles Liedts, one of the founding fathers of Belgium, Minister of Finance in the mid-1800s, and one of the founders of the National Bank of Belgium, had a country house built there around 1860. Originally a white plastered castle, it was rebuilt in 1883 by his son, Amedée Liedts, in an eclectic style. The park, in the English landscape style, was largely laid out between 1865 and 1869. In 1907, the childless Amedée donated Liedts Castle, along with its library, art collection, and park, to the city of Oudenaarde, which opened the estate as a city park. Today, the castle is home to the VCL, the Liedts Liberal Centre. The park is open to the public and is the green lung of the city of Oudenaarde.

Beautiful park with ponds and café restaurant.

Beautiful park with many benches to rest for a while or have something to eat in the restaurant or drink a coffee on the terrace.

Since 1654, the castle domain, located along the Kasteelstraat in Lozer, has been owned by the della Faille d’Huysse family. The beautiful castle was called ‘’t Goed Uplosere’ in the 17th century. The block-shaped castle acquired its current neoclassical appearance during renovations in the 18th century. From the Kasteelstraat you can see the symmetrical rear facade. From the Appelhoekstraat you have a view of the front facade. The 19th century park in English landscape style consists of ponds, winding paths, bridges and appurtenances such as a walled vegetable garden, caretaker’s house, dog kennel, coach house, tower-shaped garden pavilion, farmyard and gatehouse. From the castle domain, a double avenue leads to the O.-L.-Vrouw van Bijstandkerk.

In the 20th century, the castle was successively owned by the Oblate Fathers (1910-1920), who set up a dairy there, by the Versele family (of the Anglo-Belge brewery), who rented it to J. De Clerck, for, among other things, a horse breeding farm and the refurbishment of the "Leiedal" dairy. In 1989-90, the castle was completely restored. Nowadays, the castle serves as a banquet hall for wedding parties, with room for 200 to 500 people. Source: Inventory of Immovable Heritage

Walking along the old Leie meander you can see the castle (Te Lake and not 'Te Meer',... the absurd result of an automatic translation, reported to Komoot, but apparently difficult to correct) from afar, albeit through the trees. The castle was built in 1748 on the old site with moat of the lordship "Te Lake" whose history goes back to the 13th century. The lordship, named after the Van Lake family, was a fief of the fiefdom "de Stenen Man" of Oudenaarde. At the end of the 15th and in the 16th century in the possession of the family van Gavere, also called van Liedekerke and from 1592 of the Basta family. Baron de Beer sells the lordship in 1715 to J.S. Limnander, lord of the lordship "ter Werft" in Zulte. His son will have the old castle demolished and a new, more comfortable castle built with stables, a gardener's house and gardens. The straight lane leading to the castle is still named after the Limnander family. Until the construction of the Leie Canal (1972), it connected the castle to the village centre. Source: Inventory of Immovable Heritage