Kasteel Van Beervelde

Lochristi, Belgium, Belgium

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Kasteel van Beervelde, more commonly known today as Park van Beervelde, is a historic estate in the village of Beervelde, a part of Lochristi in East Flanders, Belgium, 25 hectares (about 62 acres) of which form a celebrated landscape park designed in the late 19th century.

The landholding dates back to earlier centuries as a local manor called “het Goed bij de Kapel” or “Oud Beirvelde”, but the modern estate was created in 1873 when Count Louis Fuchs, commissioned by the noble family de Kerchove de Denterghem, laid out a late‑romantic, English‑style park with woods, meadows, a lake, ribs‑like terraces and a formal garden south of the house, making it a showcase for Ghent’s horticultural trade.

In the late 19th century the family built a new, larger, picturesque castle on the site, but after the Second World War this very large building was demolished in the 1950s and replaced by a more practical country villa, which now houses the administration of the park and contains basement walls decorated with monumental murals by artists Roger Raveel, Raoul De Keyser and others.

Today the estate is famous as the venue of the internationally renowned Tuindagen van Beervelde (Garden Days of Beervelde), a major flower and garden fair held each year in May and October, and it is also a protected landscape monument and a popular destination for guided walks through its trees, water features and quiet, park‑like scenery.