Moermond Castle
Moermond Castle ( Dutch Slot Moermond , pronunciation: Murmond ) is a moated castle in the Dutch town of Renesse , which is currently used commercially.
history
Already 1229 built Costijn van Zierikzee in the place of the present castle, a castle . The oval moated castle had a circumference of almost sixty meters and had five towers. The walls were over a meter and a half thick, and the gates were almost two meters thick. The castle, in which Count Willem II of Holland stayed in 1244 , was then besieged for months by Wolfart I of Borsselen in 1297 and finally destroyed.
In the first half of the 14th century, a new castle began to be built using the stones from the first complex. The second Moermond Castle was made relatively small. The downfall of this complex is in the dark. Around 1500 there was probably only one ruin, the foundations of which were excavated in 1956 and can be viewed today.
The third castle still standing today was built in 1513. In 1613 the owner wrote “Virtus post fata virescit” (“Virtue unfolds after setbacks”) via the entrance portal . The complex, which changed residents over the course of time - among others those of Cromstrien and those of Stavenisse were once the rulers of the castle and the country - was only heavily attacked again in the storm surge of 1953. Afterwards restored again, the building, which today belongs to a private foundation, serves as a place for conferences and is not open to the public except for one room. The land belonging to the castle is a swampy ( moer ) area, today largely left to nature, which is also not accessible to the public.
Web links
- Slot Moermond: Website of the tourist association VVV Zeeland (Dutch, German, English)
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 1 " N , 3 ° 47 ′ 11.6" E