Heemstede Castle

Heemstede, Netherlands

Heemstede castle was first built in 1280 by Dirk van Hoylede from the region of Vlaardingen. Built, burned and rebuilt over the centuries, it was last torn down in 1810, after years of neglect. The monumental gatekeeper's house 'Nederhuys', built in 1630 remains intact as well as the foundations from the Middle Ages. The most famous owner of the castle was Adriaan Pauw, who bought it in 1620. He played a role in the Treaty of Munster, and built the bridge Pons Pacis to commemorate the peace treaty.

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Founded: 1280
Category: Castles and fortifications in Netherlands

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Gerard de Vries (2 years ago)
Great location for weddings and big parties. There is wonderful garden and plenty room to party into the evening.
Haley Doyle (2 years ago)
Terrible to work with for planning a wedding. It took 3 weeks to get an appointment (we eventually had to look up a personal number because no one answered the venue phone number or email). We liked the location a lot, but during our meeting, they did not allow us to add any of our "customizations" to the quote/schedule and instead just gave us the "basic wedding" package - obviously so that it would be the cheapest quote we would have (could've just been an email as there was no personalization for what we described we wanted). We had tried to ask about the food options (there was no example menu or anything about that to look at) and they just said "Everything is possible, worry about that later". They sent us an email confirmation that we had the 1st option on our date with a full quotation, and that we could go ahead and book our wedding for that date! - but never sent us the password to log in and see the quote/ add in the customizations we had talked about! THEN, 3 or 4 days later, after they had sent us the 1st option for our date, they messaged us that they didn't actually have our date available, and asked us to change our wedding date!!!!!! We had told them this was the most important factor for if we could have it there! We had already been ready to start canceling on our other venue options and were HORRIFIED!! They strung us along for another week or so saying they would check if the other people who actually had that date would use it or not. They were so unprofessional compared to every other venue we visited (and we visited 15+ venues in The Netherlands). They were so slow to reply and so unprofessional, I didn't want to work with them even if the venue did suddenly become available. It made it even worse that they had arrogantly bragged about how many years they had been doing this during our visit.
Bob van Velzen (3 years ago)
Okay for a wedding venue. Parking is nearby.
Rob Bonnar (6 years ago)
Great venue, looked after us well
sophie aarts (6 years ago)
Een hele mooie trouw locatie kan niets anderst zeggen
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