Mullem village square

The village square, known as Dorpstraat before 1977, ending east on the Vaddenhoek, with mainly yellow-painted buildings, was cobbled in 1994. Almost intact, with St. Hilarius Church, the walled parsonage located in a valley, the walled motte where the so-called "Klein Kasteelke" used to be. " stood, rural houses, some small farms, a village inn; also a wide ornate cast iron entrance gate leading to the so-called "Den Ast Castle" of the Baroness de Gerlache de Gomery, in the Huise territory.
(Immovable Heritage Inventory)

Even today, the village of Mullem, a sub-municipality of Oudenaarde, remains a picture. The village center is classified and consists of the Romanesque Saint Hilary Church with walled cemetery, a presbytery and an old municipal school. On top of the steep Aststraat stands the castle de Gerlache, a French-style residence inhabited by the descendants of the Antarctic explorers Adrien and Gaston de Gerlache. Many houses and farms here are still painted in ocher yellow, a reminder of their former dependence on the castle.

Source: Routen

Mullem is a village in the Belgian province of East Flanders and a sub-municipality of the city of Oudenaarde, it was an independent municipality until the municipal reorganization of 1977.