Hoofdgebouw

English translation

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Description

Description component 1: MAIN BUILDING (Castle Well).

A brick castle surrounded by a spacious moat and built on an approximately square ground plan, formed by four wings around a courtyard, which came into being in various phases from the 15th century onwards. The 15th-century ring or curtain wall with a wall-walk on a projecting ogee arch frieze is still recognisable in the outer facades on the overhang on ogee arch friezes, now interrupted by (later) window openings. On the southern corner stands a heavy round donjon with gun-loops which have been partly enlarged to windows; the tower was heightened in the 17th century and provided with a slate-covered spire (the knobbed spire is post-1945) surrounded at its base by a 19th-century cast-iron balustrade. Main building with date stone 1632. Of the four approximately symmetrically laid out wings, the original residential wing is located on the north-west side, in the 15th century consisting of a hall and a chamber with two corner turrets on the outer corners (of which traces are still visible) and after 1625 enlarged to its current extent by building new outer walls on the ring wall, whereby the rear facade was moved outwards. Around 1632 or 1637 the other, narrower wings received their current height; in a later period the north-west and south-west wings were expanded on the courtyard side for the benefit of a corridor system to better serve the rooms, thereby creating the uniform character of the courtyard. The four wings consist of a basement and partly two, partly three storeys under continuous slate roofs and membrane coverings provided with overhangs on the outside; small roof dormers. One of the roof dormers with a hoist beam, the hoist installation has been preserved in complete condition in the attic. The facade arrangement is determined by multi-pane windows under lintels or spanned by arches and smaller window lights. The front facade has centrally a projecting gateway tower (c.1635) of three storeys terminated by a stepped gable with curved sides, in which a clock face and a small bell. The gateway entrance of the main building is basket arch-shaped and has a double wooden rebated door with heavy iron fittings.

In the INTERIOR, the following are noteworthy: the staircase in the rear wing with an 18th-century broad oak stair with richly carved starting piece; corridors of the main building largely paved with hardstone (square pattern); some 18th- and early 19th-century marble fireplaces, some with stucco-decorated overmantel; simple stucco ornaments; wall paintings (frescoes) from the 17th century; attic storey of the main building on the courtyard side shows among other things the extension of a gallery; original roof shield largely preserved; cellars with barrel vaults. Donjon cellar with dome vault; overlying room with ribbed vault.

Valuation

The MAIN BUILDING (Castle Well) is of general importance:

- because of its age;

- because of the originally 15th-century main building (curtain wall) which acquired its present appearance in the 17th century;

- because of the interior components;

- because of its distinctive location within the historic garden and park layout;

- because of the functional-spatial relationship with the other components of the historic country estate.