Slangenburg Castle

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 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 ("State Buildings Service"), while the surrounding area falls under the care of the Dutch environmental agency, the Staatsbosbeheer.

Texto adaptado de «Slangenburg Castle» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Slangenburg Castle ranks #3099 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #29 of the 124 mapped in Países Bajos. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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