Château de La Fougeraie

Château de La Fougeraie
The château in 2019
Location within Belgium
Alternative names	Château Wittouck
General information
Type	Château
Location	Uccle, Brussels, Belgium
Coordinates	50.790177°N 4.383744°E / 50.790177; 4.383744
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Louis Süe, Paul Huillard
Engineer	L. Bogaerts

The Château de La Fougeraie, also called the Château Wittouck, is a stately home in Belgium built in 1911 for the industrialist Paul Wittouck. The château is located in Uccle, on the outskirts of Brussels, in the Sonian Forest.

History

The château was built in 1911 for the industrialist Paul Wittouck by the architect Louis Süe. Paul Huillard collaborated with Süe on the project.^[1] The engineer was L. Bogaerts. Gustave Louis Jaulmes decorated the interior.^[2]

During World War II, the fascist leader Léon Degrelle occupied the château. In September–October 1944, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands made it his base.^[3] The Dutchman Christiaan Lindemans, known as King Kong due to his physique, had served the British secret service for four years before offering his services to the Germans. He was arrested at the Chateau Wittouck on 28 October 1944 on suspicion that he had betrayed the attack on Arnhem. The charge was almost certainly false.^[4]

See also

• List of castles and châteaux in Belgium
• Neoclassical architecture in Belgium
• History of Brussels
• Culture of Belgium
• Belgium in the long nineteenth century

References

Citations

1. Institut français d'architecture 1991, p. 474.
2. Objet SUELO-B-11-2...
3. Zijl 2011, PT156.
4. Jong 1955, pp. 111–112.

Sources

• Institut français d'architecture (1 January 1991). Archives d'architecture du XXe siècle. Mauad Editora Ltda. ISBN 978-2-87009-446-4. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
• Jong, C.-T. de (January 1955). "La pretendue trahison d'Arnhem (15-9-1944)". Revue d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, 5e Année (in French) (17). Presses Universitaires de France. JSTOR 25731461.
• "Objet SUELO-B-11-2. Château de La Fougeraie pour Paul Wittouck, Bruxelles (Belgique). 1911". Fonds Süe, Louis (1875-1968). 030 Ifa. Inventaire complet, réalisé par Susan Day, Sonia Gaubert, Marcos Carvalho-Canto sous la direction de Maurice Culot, Gilles Ragot. Centre d'archives de l'IFA. 27 August 2013. Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
• Zijl, Annejet van der (26 July 2011). Bernhard: een verborgen geschiedenis. Singel itgeverijen. ISBN 978-90-214-4173-3. Retrieved 4 July 2015.

External links

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