Zuylestein Castle

Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Netherlands

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Zuylestein Castle stands near Leersum in the Netherlands, about twenty miles east of Utrecht, on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug. Though its origins date to the fourteenth century, the house achieved municipal status only in 1636. Originally owned by Utrecht's burgomaster, it passed to Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, in 1630, who granted it to his illegitimate son Frederick in 1640, conferring the title Lord of Zuylestein. The castle survived subsequent European conflicts but sustained severe damage during the Second World War. A new semi-historical structure was erected in 1982 where the formal gardens once lay. Since 2011, the walled kitchen garden—one of the Netherlands' finest surviving examples of a late seventeenth-century walled garden—has undergone restoration. The Twickel Foundation now manages the estate and its grounds.

Movement

Renaissance architecture

Type: château
Place: Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Netherlands

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