Kasteel Carpentier, Manor house in Wingene, Belgium
Kasteel Carpentier is a small castle in Wingene, West Flanders, at Sint Pietersveldstraat 4, northwest of Doomkerke near De Gulke Putten. Its irregular plan centres on a facade with a raised terrace (bordes) flanked by two stepped gables, with a small tower on the right. It stands in a park laid out in late-19th-century landscape style.
The manor was built in 1883 for Baron Carolus De Beughem and later passed to Pierre Carpentier, who gave the building its current name. In 1920 the property was taken over for the construction of a broadcasting station.
The estate forms part of Sint-Pietersveld, a protected cultural landscape in West Flanders that shows how wealthy families built their homes during the late 1800s. Walking around the grounds gives a sense of how local landowners displayed their status through architecture and land use.
Kasteel Carpentier stands at Sint Pietersveldstraat 4 in the far east of Wingene, northwest of Doomkerke and beside De Gulke Putten. The grounds are private and the building is inhabited, so visitors view it from the public road. The park around it retains features of late-19th-century landscape style.
The castle's best-known episode came in 2012, when the resident Stijn Saelens was murdered there in a case that gripped Belgium as the "kasteelmoord". The building had been lived in again only since 1997, after decades of use linked to the radio station.
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