Netherlands · 17th century
Groot Engelenburg is a country house on a 50-hectare estate with a golf course located in Brummen in the Dutch province of Gelderland.
The country house was built on the spot where a medieval castle originally stood. It was set on fire and destroyed by the Spanish army in 1624 during the Invasion of the Veluwe. In 1641 Jacob II Schimmelpenninck built a new country house on the foundations of the castle, which he used for hunting. Later it was owned as a holiday and conference centre by the Twentsche Bank and, after a merger, by the Algemene Bank Nederland. Since 1987 it has been a hotel-restaurant. Groot Engelenburg is included in the register of rijksmonumenten.
Machine-translated from “Kasteel Groot Engelenburg” on the Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kasteel Groot Engelenburg ranks #8,137 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #155 of the 199 mapped in Netherlands. Founded 1641, it is older than 27% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 721 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. 14 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Apeldoorn, 17 km away. See how Netherlands compares in the castle statistics.
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