Vaalsbroek Castle

Vaalsbroek Castle (in German also called Vaalsbroich and Vaalsbruch, Limburgish Kesjteël Volsbruch) is a castle complex in the Vaals district of Raren about 1.5 kilometres west of the centre of Vaals. It lies in the plain below the three-country point on the Vaalserberg, on the Dutch side. It is surrounded by the Limburg hill landscape not far from the foothills of the Eifel and the Ardennes, about 20 kilometres east of Maastricht and about eight kilometres west of the city centre of Aachen.

The castle complex has been a protected monument since 24 June 2002. Its roots lie in the 13th century, when a Lasshof stood on the same spot. A first manor house of the 15th century was replaced between 1733 and 1736 by Leonard Lamberts von Cortenbach with a prestigious three-winged castle in the Classicist style. Altered once more in the 1760s by the Aachen cloth manufacturer Johann Arnold von Clermont and surrounded by an English landscape garden, it is used today as an upmarket conference centre, restaurant and hotel.

Machine-translated from “Schloss Vaalsbroek” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vaalsbroek Castle ranks #6,686 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #116 of the 201 mapped in Netherlands. 40 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Aachen, 6 km away. See how Netherlands compares in the castle statistics.

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