Wolvendael Park, Urban public park in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium

Wolvendael Park is a public park of 14.5 hectares in Uccle, Brussels, on the southern slope of the former Ukkelbeek valley. Its grounds surround a neoclassical château built around 1810 for Guillaume Vanderborcht, now housing Uccle's art school. The park also holds an 18th-century Louis XV pavilion moved stone by stone from Amsterdam in 1909, and a well decorated with reliefs.

Wolvendael is first recorded in 1209, when the cartulary of Affligem Abbey mentions "Terram que woluesdal vocatur" near a bend of the Ukkelbeek. From the 17th century it was a pleasure estate; in 1715 Eugène-Henri Fricx bought it and probably built a villa, and by 1733 Thomas de Fraula held gardens, orchards and woodland. Uccle bought the estate on 21 April 1921 and opened it to the public; it was classified as a protected site in 1972.

The park's name comes from Flemish, meaning "valley at the bend", after a meander of the Ukkelbeek, not from the Dutch word for wolves. Near the Louis XV pavilion stands a well decorated with reliefs, and Frans Huygelen's 1926 bas-relief "Le Réveil du Printemps" shows sleeping nature woken by children. A plaque commemorates René Gobert, a 1914-18 veteran shot in 1943.

The park occupies the south slope of the former Ukkelbeek valley, between the square des Héros and avenue de Fré to the north and the Dieweg cemetery to the south. The château, now housing Uccle's art school, stands within the grounds, and the Louis XV pavilion and its carved well are nearby. The site has been protected since 1972.

The park's name does not come from the Dutch word for wolves, as visitors often assume. It is read as "valley (dael) at the bend (wolf)", after a meander of the Ukkelbeek stream that once ran through the site. The earliest written mention, "Terram que woluesdal vocatur", appears in the Cartulary of Affligem Abbey and dates from 1209.