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Huis te Merwede

Netherlands

Heritage status
Rijksmonument
Location
Dordrecht
Coordinates
51.8214°, 4.712°
Links
OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
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Huis te Merwede in the Netherlands
Photo: P.H. Louw · CC BY 2.5 nl · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Huis te Merwe(de) or Kasteel Ter Merwe is a former medieval castle to the east of the city of Dordrecht on the Merwede. The castle was built between the years 1307 and 1335 at the junction of the rivers Oude Maas, Noord and Merwede, as the place where the staple right was exercised.

Huis te Merwede is one of the oldest castle ruins in the Netherlands (as early as 1418). Of the castle there still remains a 14th-century tower with walls about two metres thick, which lies behind a prison and an industrial estate.

Machine-translated from “Huis te Merwede” on the Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Huis te Merwede ranks #8,780 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #164 of the 213 mapped in Netherlands. 9 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Rotterdam, 19 km away. See how Netherlands compares in the castle statistics.

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