Slangenburg Castle
Late medieval castle, now a Benedictine guesthouse in Gelderland.
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Where it is
Coordinates: 51°57′40″N 6°21′40″E (51.9610, 6.3610) · Open in OpenStreetMap
Coordinates and connected clubs: the infobox of Wikipedia: Slangenburg Castle (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map: drawn by Codexery from OpenStreetMap tiles.
Slangenburg Castle, found in Gelderland’s Doetinchem area, dates back to the Late Middle Ages. It sits in a forest of the same name, roughly five kilometers from Doetinchem and between that town and Varsseveld.
In the 1600s, General Frederik Johan van Baer, known as General Slangenburg, took ownership and remodeled it as a home. After World War II, the Dutch state seized the castle from its final private owners, the German Passmann family. Today, the nearby St. Willibrord’s Abbey, a Benedictine monastery built in the 1950s on former castle grounds, uses the castle as a guesthouse.
Did You Know?
- The last private owners, the Passmann family, are buried in a private cemetery next to the moat.
- The original monastic community from Oosterhout Abbey was initially accommodated in the castle itself right after the war.
- The estate is roughly trapezoid in shape and features a system of lanes that is centuries old.
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Sources
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- Wikipedia: Slangenburg Castle (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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