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Type
  
Castle

Open tothe public
  
Yes (partly)

Materials
  
Phone
  
+31 315 298 200

Material
  
Brick

Owner
  
Dutch government

Condition
  
Good

Province
  
Year built
  
1500

Slangenburg Castle

Address
  
Kasteellaan 6, 7004 JK Doetinchem, Netherlands

Similar
  
Middachten Castle, Doornenburg Castle, Biljoen Castle, Huis Bergh, Huis Verwolde

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Kasteel de slangenburg doetinchem


Slangenburg Castle (Dutch: Kasteel Slangenburg) is a castle in the municipality of Doetinchem in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. The castle is located in the forest of the same name between the towns of Varsseveld and Doetinchem, about 5 kilometers from the latter.

Slangenburg Castle was constructed in the Late Medieval period. In the 17th century the castle became the property of General Frederik Johan van Baer, also known as General Slangenburg, who rebuilt it for residential purposes.

The last private owners were a German family called Passmann, who are buried in a private cemetery next to the moat. After the World War II all German properties were confiscated by the Dutch government, who thus acquired the castle, which, with the surrounding terrain and the buildings within the outer moat, now forms part of the portfolio of the Rijksgebouwendienst ("Royal Buildings Service"), while the surrounding area falls under the care of the Dutch environmental agency, the Staatsbosbeheer.

At present the castle is used as a guesthouse by the nearby Benedictine monastery, St. Willibrord's Abbey (Sint-Willibrordabdij), a newly built structure of the 1950s situated on a part of the castle's former estate. The original monastic community, from Oosterhout Abbey, was initially accommodated in the castle itself in the years immediately following the war.

The estate and the monastery chapel are open to the public. The estate, roughly trapezoid in shape, features a system of lanes which is centuries old.

References

Slangenburg Castle Wikipedia


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