Beersel Castle

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The Beersel Castle (2006)

The castle Beersel is a late medieval lowland castle on the territory of the Belgian municipality Beersel in Brussels in Flemish Brabant.

History

The castle was built 1300-1310. During the Flanders uprising in 1489, the castle was besieged and taken twice.

In 1491 but was rebuilt and received its three horseshoe-shaped towers. Earlier such forms were used, as for example in the castle Fougeres, suggesting a French influence. The shape of the towers was chosen in order to bounce approaching cannonballs better. Further protection is a castle surrounding moat.

The castle has been no longer occupied since 1544, so that the interiors have been preserved in their original state.

Plant

Beersel castle was built of brick, which gives it the typical red color. The clearly structured system consists of a circular wall with approximately circular polygonal floor plan and three similarly designed wall towers. One of these towers also serves as a gate-tower, from which executes a drawbridge over the moat. In the large courtyard subordinate building found a place. Was located on the opposite side of the courtyard to the gate tower which today no longer preserved main building, which was grown with its back to the ring wall and these towered over the roof. The gable of the main house and are designed as a stepped gable on the backs of the spiers. The main wall - curtains complete with a covered parapet walk, which is equipped to the front with windows and battlements bush nicks. Similarly, the military platforms are designed on the towers, which are covered by tall half cone roofs.