Ilpenstein Castle

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Photography of Ilpenstein Castle (second half of the 19th century)

The Ilpenstein Castle , also Huis te Ilpendam or Hof te Ilpendam called, is the name of a former castle on the north of the city of Amsterdam in the so-called Waterland was.

history

Catharina Hooft was the owner of Ilpenstein Castle from 1678

In 1618, the then Amsterdam regent, Knight Volkert Overlander, acquired the glory of Purmerland and Ilpendam from the hands of the bankruptcy trustees of the Counts of Egmond . Ilpenstein Castle was built on a ski jump raised by the Spaniards during the Eighty Years' War . The palace construction, completed in 1622, was, despite its fortified main gate and the moat that surrounded the palace, more of a country residence than a castle to be defended .

After the death of Knight Overlander, the glory and the castle passed into the hands of his daughter Maria and her husband Frans Banning Cocq , who became world-famous as the captain of Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch . When Maria Overlander-Banning Cocq died in 1678, ownership passed to Catharina Hooft . Subsequently, the glory and the castle connected to it came into the possession of their son Jakob, in whose family it remained until 1872. The last residents of the castle were Christina Elisabeth de Graeff († 1872) and her husband Jacob Gerrit van Garderen († 1856). In 1872 the castle was sold and shortly afterwards demolished to make way for the Ilpendam municipality's garbage dump in more recent times.

Some of the castle residents were buried in the Reformed Church in Ilpendam and in the Amsterdam Oude Kerk .

Ilpendam's archive

Cornelis de Graeff on a painting by NE Pickenoy from 1636 in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin

The Ilpendamsche Archief was connected with the possession of the castle . After the sale and the subsequent demolition of the castle, it ended up in the respective home of the head of the De Graeff family , i.e. in Amsterdam or The Hague . The archive consisted of numerous documents, including letters from Johan de Witt to his cousin Pieter de Graeff . They report on the education of De Graeff's great-niece Maria de Witt, who, together with her four siblings, was under the tutelage of De Graeff. The archive also contained various documents by De Witt and De Graeff relating to the training of the young Orange Prince Wilhelm , who later became King of England and Dutch governor . During this time William of Orange was placed under the tutelage of Cornelis de Graeff , and was friends with his sons, Pieter and Jacob . There are also many songs of praise and poems for the De Graeff family by Holland's great poet Joost van den Vondel in the archive's collection. Another special feature of the Ilpendam Archives are the wedding poems by Vondel and Gerard Brandt , which they wrote on the occasion of Pieter de Graeff's wedding at Ilpenstein Castle.

Art and painting collection

The collection on Ilpenstein also included numerous paintings showing members of the De Graeff, Bicker , Overlander and Hooft families , such as Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy's wedding portraits by Cornelis de Graeff and Catharina Hooft, Artus Quellinus marble bust by Andries de Graeff , and Jacob van Ruisdael's painting Arrival of Cornelis de Graeff in Soestdijk or Gerard ter Borch's portraits of Jakob, Andries and his son Cornelis.

Another object in the collection was the silver shovel with which Jacob de Graeff laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Paleis op de Dam . The armchair in which Wilhelm the Silent sat while visiting his friend Dirck Jansz Graeff was also in this collection. Nowadays all these objects are either in the Rijksmuseum , the Berlin Gemäldegalerie or in other public museums in the Netherlands; also the coat of Johan de Witt, in which he was wounded on the shoulder by Jacob van der Graeff with a knife on the night of June 21st to June 22nd, 1672.

literature

  • JH de Bruijn et al .: De bewoners van het Kasteel Ilpenstein en hun nakomelingen. 1827-1957 . Ilpendam 1958.
  • John Dehé: Een slaafsch en ongezond bedrijf. De geschiedenis van het openbaar vervoer in Waterland, 1630-1880 . Verloren, Hilversum 2005, ISBN 90-6550-853-8 , pp. 386-392 online
  • JW Groesbeek: Middeleeuwse kastelen van Noord-Holland. Hun bewoners en moved divorced . Rijswijk 1981, pp. 276-283.
  • HP Moelker: De heerlijkheid Purmerland en Ilpendam . Purmerend 1978.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Ilpenstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 46.2 "  N , 4 ° 57 ′ 13.2"  E