Kasteeldomein Stas De Richelle

Destelbergen, Belgium, Belgium

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Kasteeldomein Stas de Richelle (also written Stas De Richelle) is a historic estate in the Heusden district of Destelbergen, East Flanders, Belgium, located near the Scheldt on the former medieval site of moated lands once known as Hof en leen ter Aelmeersch.

The core of the present neoclassical castle dates from a major enlargement carried out after 1830 and before 1858, incorporating an earlier 18th‑century building whose ground floor and plaster ceilings survive, and it stands in a park laid out in landscape style with a serpentine pond, tree groups and open views.

The estate was originally a rectangular moated farmstead and pastorate (recorded in the 1782 Landbook of Merelbeke) that was transformed into a summer residence in the late 19th century, and around 1930 it was partially rebuilt by Laurent Stas de Richelle into a whitish brick villa in neo‑Louis XVI style with a mansard roof, a prominent central risalite with a portico on columns and a gabled roof window, and an adjacent service building with a matching pilaster and gable design.

The domain also includes 18th‑ and 19th‑century outbuildings, a walled rectangular vegetable garden, an old icehouse, and remnants of the former moat and of the nearby Kasteel ter Kerchove, all set within a substantial park that has been protected as heritage.