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Amerongen Castle

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Location: Amerongen, Utrecht, Netherlands

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1. View of Wijk bij Duurstede – Korenmolen Rijn en Lek loop from Leersum

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2. Rijn and Lek Flour Mill – View of Wijk bij Duurstede loop from Maurik

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3. Uiterwaarden Neder-Rijn – Rijn en Lek Corn Mill loop from Maurik

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Johanna

May 20, 2019

The current castle dates from 1680 and was the residence of diplomatic and officer families who played an important role in (inter)national politics. The castle now houses a small museum.

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Kathi

January 6, 2017

Kasteel Amerongen is a water castle built in 1286. The present castle was built from 1672. It is one of the most important hundred imperial monuments of the Netherlands.
Schloss Amerongen was the site of the personal abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II on 28 November 1918. The following two years Kaiser Wilhelm II was there as a guest of the Bentinck family in exile. The house was guarded during this time by the Dutch military, because the Allies demanded during this time several times the extradition of the Emperor, to put him before an international war crimes tribunal. The Dutch government, however, refuses extradition.

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Ria van den Heuvel

August 23, 2023

Amerongen Castle is a beautiful 'House' from the seventeenth century. The House, the garden and inventory form a unity that is not common in the Netherlands.
The history of Amerongen Castle officially begins in 1286. On July 20 of that year, Floris V of Holland declared that Henric and Diederic Borre van Amerongen had become his fief of the "Huyse dat si do carpentry". The castle was destroyed and rebuilt several times in those early years. In 1557 the house was sold to Goert van Reede 1516-1585). He married Geertruid van Nijenrode, who was the heir to nearby Zuylestein. The first map depicting Amerongen Castle dates from 1597, the year in which the house was recognized as a knight's court town. Frederik van Reede inherited the house from his father and in turn left it to his son Goert. With Goert's son Godard Adriaan van Reede, who acquired the house in 1641, a new era began for the house.
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1. View of Wijk bij Duurstede – Korenmolen Rijn en Lek loop from Leersum

2. Rijn and Lek Flour Mill – View of Wijk bij Duurstede loop from Maurik

3. Uiterwaarden Neder-Rijn – Rijn en Lek Corn Mill loop from Maurik

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