#muiderslot

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Muiderslot Castle - NETHERLANDS

[kylobith]

Today was good because I visited a castle.

[xavierbautistagarcia]

A castle and 22 stabs

Muiderslot Castle was originally a fortified toll house at the mouth of the river Vecht. Built around 1280 by the Count of Holland Floris V, it dominated the trade route to Utrecht.

This must have been controversial, because in 1296 Floris was captured during a hunt and imprisoned in the castle itself for five days, the time it took him to try to escape. The escape failed and the count died after being stabbed 22 times.

When the builder of the castle died, the Archbishop of Utrecht conquered it in 1297. Shortly afterwards, around 1300, it seems to have been razed to the ground by another archbishop, from Mechelen, who probably used the stones of Muiderslot to enlarge Vreeland Castle.

The Count of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut Albrecht I of Wittelsbach, who was also Duke of Bavaria, rebuilt it at the end of the 14th century on the same site and tried to do so with the same layout, although it seems that the ruins of the castle still remained on the site.

In the 16th century, a group of scholars and literati met at the castle in what was called the Muider Circle (Muiderkring in Dutch). However, it seems that the meetings held there were only holiday stays, as the castle had no heating system and was almost uninhabitable in winter.

At the end of the 18th century, France occupied the Netherlands and the castle became a barracks, but was subsequently abandoned and fell into disrepair. However, in the early 19th century it was used as an ammunition depot and prison, before being abandoned again.

Disputes over the future of the castle condemned it first to demolition, then an attempt was made to sell it to use its stones for building, and then it was considered for restoration, the latter option succeeding in converting it into one of the sites of the Royal Dutch Museum (Rijksmuseum).

[postcard-from-the-past]

100 years ago:

Muiderslot Castle, Muiden, Netherlands,

Giulio Groebert Photography

[dutchjan]

May 18, 2024

[castellsipalaus]

Muiderslot

El castell Muiderslot fou en els seu orígens un peatge fortificat situat a la desembocadura del riu Vecht. Construït cap al 1280 pel comte d’Holanda Floris V, dominava la ruta comercial cap a Utrecht.

Aquest fet devia ser controvertit, perquè el 1296 Floris va ser capturat durant una cacera i tancat al mateix castell durant cinc dies, els que va trigar a intentar escapar. La fuga va fracassar i el comte va morir després de rebre vint-i-dues ganivetades.

Mort el constructor del castell, l’arquebisbe d’Utrecht el va conquerir el 1297. Poc després, cap al 1300, sembla que va ser arrasat per un altre arquebisbe, el de Malines, qui probablement va fer servir les pedres de Muiderslot per ampliar el castell de Vreeland.

El comte d’Holanda, Zelanda i Hainaut Albrecht I de Wittelsbach, que també era duc de Baviera, el va tornar a bastir a finals del segle XIV al mateix lloc i tractant de reconstruir-lo amb el mateix traçat, encara que sembla que al lloc encara quedaven les ruines del castell.

Al segle XVI, un grup d’erudits i literats es reunia al castell, en el que es va anomenar Cercle de Muider (Muiderkring, en neerlandès). No obstant, sembla que les reunions que s’hi feien eren només estades de vacances, doncs el castell no tenia sistema de calefacció i a l’hivern era gairebé inhabitable.

A finals del segle XVIII, França va ocupar els Països Baixos i el castell es va convertir en una caserna, però posteriorment va ser abandonat i es va anar deteriorant. No obstant, a principis del segle XIX va ser utilitzat com a dipòsit de municions i com a presó, però va tornar a ser abandonat.

Les disputes sobre el futur del castell van condemnar-lo primer a la demolició, després es va intentar vendre’l per aprofitar les seves pedres per a la construcció i posteriorment es va estudiar la seva restauració, la qual cosa va reeixir per convertir-lo en una de les seus del Museu Reial holandés (Rijksmuseum).

[zwierendezwam]

Wore my new kirtle to Muiderslot today!!

[priestess-of-the-north-west]

December celebrations at Castle Muiderslot, Muiden, Noord-Holland. Thousands of migrating geese stop over in the surrounding polders.

Picture © Priestess of the North-West.

[lindam54]

Castles with an M Moravicì - Manderscheid Muiderslot - Mespelbrunn - Mespelbrunn McDermott - Mielmont

[myragewillend]

Visited Groningen last week I was just in time to spend my money on the May fair. lol Do you have cities you'd recommend to visit next or any NL attractions for that matter? Also, stroopwafel... my beloved..

Got this ask right after someone else's ask about visiting the Netherlands, lol.

You can't visit the Netherlands and not visit any art museums. You've got Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh in Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh museum), Mondriaan, M.C. Escher and more Rembrandt and Vermeer (Girl With a Pearl Earring) in Den Haag (Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Escher in Het Paleis, Mauritshuis) and other amazing art musea with many of the Dutch masters (Kröller-Müller Museum, Rembrandthuis, etc.).

If you enjoy architecture, there's obviously Amsterdam (boat tour right outside the train station is pretty fun), in Rotterdam you'll find the cube houses, and there are the Delta Works in Zeeland. If you want to visit 'older' cities, you should definitely see Maastricht in the south, one of our oldest cities (and my personal favorite, but for heavily biased reasons, though it's really got a great atmosphere and beautiful buildings and goes right over the river the Maas). In Drenthe you'll find the 'hunebedden' (dolmens), tombs from prehistoric times. As far as castles, we have palaces like Soestdijk Palace and Het Loo and old castles like Muiderslot. Den Haag is also where our government resides, if that should interest you. Personally, I'd say these sort of things aren't really worth an entire trip by itself, unless you're truly interested, but more of a fun thing to check out if you should be visiting any of these cities anyway and have an extra hour to fill.

As far as nature goes we have the Veluwe in Gelderland, a wooded area. Go to Scheveningen if you want to visit the North Sea (also has a Sea Life aquarium). The beach is popular in summer but really I think it's nicer to visit on a cold day, when all you hear are the seagulls and the waves. The northern islands are nice places as well for quiet, beachy surroundings. You're just a month too late for the Keukenhof unfortunately, the world's largest tulip garden.

Lastly, you really should visit the Efteling, a theme park in Noord Brabant with a very unique style, full of fantasy elements and animatronics, including a fairy tale forest with lots of old-fashioned fairy tales (i.e. the originals, not the Disney versions). But also roller coasters and water rides and shit. Though if you mainly want roller coasters, I'd suggest Walibi instead (previously a Six Flags park).

Ever had fresh stroopwafels from a market stall? That shit is the best. I think it's more common in winter. The Efteling has a Winter Wonderland theme going on too then, with lots of stalls serving hot snacks and drinks. Maastricht also does yearly winter markets with ice skating, a huge ferris wheel and tons of stalls with hot glühwein and warm snacks.

Hope that gives you enough ideas lol.

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Muiderslot Castle - NETHERLANDS

[mothmiso]

The Muiderslot Castle - 2017 (2) (3) (4) (5) by Richard Melton

[johnooms]

Wat gebeurde er op 27 juni? 1296 - GRAAF FLORIS V VAN HOLLAND WORDT VERMOORD Floris V , bijgenaamd "der keerlen god " was de zoon van graaf Willem II, die tevens rooms-koning was. Via zijn betovergrootmoeder, Ada van Schotland, was hij verwant met het Schotse koningshuis. Bij zijn politieke optreden probeerde hij gebruik te maken van deze connectie. Op tweejarige leeftijd werd hij graaf van Holland en Zeeland. Zijn vader was een half jaar daarvoor vermoord. Zijn oom, Floris de Voogd, nam voogdij over hem op zich. Zijn tante Aleida nam kort daarna voogdij over na de dood van Floris de Voogd. Op twaalfjarige leeftijd, in 1266, werd de jonge Floris officieel meerderjarig verklaard, en op 14-jarige leeftijd trad hij in het huwelijk met Beatrix van Vlaanderen (van Dampierre). In 1279 stichtte Floris V De Orde van Sint Jacob, als een ridderorde met aanvankelijk dertien leden. Het ging fout toen Floris zijn Engelse bondgenoot Eduard I in 1296 wegens een conflict over de wolhandel aan de kant zette ten gunste van de Franse bondgenoot. Het verhaal gaat dat de Engelse koning enkele ontevreden edelen zou hebben gevraagd hem gevangen te nemen. Tijdens een valkenjacht - volgens sommige geschiedschrijvers bij de Egelshoek werd Floris gevangengenomen door Gijsbrecht van Amstel, Herman VI van Woerden, Willem van Zaanden en Gerard van Velsen. Het nieuws van zijn gevangenneming lekte echter snel uit en onder het volk, waar Floris erg populair was, ontwikkelde zich het plan hem te bevrijden. Toen de edelen met hun gevangene op 27 juni 1296 het Muiderslot verlieten met Van Velsen en enkele schildknapen voorop als verkenners, kwamen ze bij Muiderberg een groep Gooilanders uit Naarden tegen die Floris in levende lijve kwamen opeisen. Hierop reed Gerard van Velsen terug, trok zijn zwaard en doodde graaf Floris... Klik op de link hieronder voor meer Nieuws van Vroeger: http://johnooms.nl/2024/06/27/27-juni/

[ronnydeschepper]

Anna Blaman (1905-1960)

Het is vandaag al zestig jaar geleden dat Anna Blaman (foto genomen bij de uitreiking van de P.C. Hooftprijs op het Muiderslot op 29 mei 1957 door Harry Pot – GaHetNa Nationaal Archief NL) is overleden op 13 juli 1960 aan de gevolgen van een hersenembolie. Zij werd begraven op begraafplaats in haar geboortestad Rotterdam, maar haar graf werd in de jaren negentig geruisloos geruimd, in een periode…

[chloemarievaughan]

May 27th-Amsterdam

I forgot to report yesterday that I left my sun hat on a train, RIP sun hat that I just bought for the trip! I never liked the hat anyway, good excuse to buy a new one! 

This morning we enjoyed some espressos and then had a quick tram to a longer tram to a ferry to visit a medieval castle about 40 minutes from Amsterdam, the Muiderslot. This castle was started as a fortress on that location in the 1200s and was built due to the defensive position on the mouth of the river and the sea. There were two sections of the audio tour, and this audio tour was not easy to follow. It was never clear which way you were supposed to go for the next segment of the tour and instead of scanning for the audio clip at the entrance of a new room you had to cross the entire room to scan it which was a bit annoying. We also did stops 1-6 on the first tour and wound up back at the beginning somehow so went on to the second tour. Once we finished that one, we could see step 11 from the first tour which we had missed entirely, so did 7-11 of the first tour again. Turns out that was the best part of the tour, 1-6 and the second tour were all showing the defensive features of the fort (places to shoot people with arrows or throw boiling water on invaders, etc. step 7-11 were laid out with a recreation of how the castle actually looked in Medieval times, and then some exhibits on the founder of the castle, count Floris V, who was murdered nearby the castle which was then essentially destroyed by his enemies, and then a famous poet PC Hooft who lived in the Muiderslot in the 1600s (long after it had been rebuilt)

This castle has a working moat and drawbridge, and the weather was again beautiful today so a great day for a ferry ride! after the castle tour, we still had about an hour until our ferry came back for us. We ate some lunch at the castle courtyard restaurant (a caprese panini and a delicious plum tart, as the Muiderslot has famous plum trees surrounding the outside of the Moat) and then tried to do a self guided audio tour of the castle gardens, but it was only in Dutch. then we walked around the gardens and moat for a while soaking in the sunshine. There were a bunch of signs with helpful information that really seemed like should have been part of the tour- like a visual of what parts of the castle were built when and descriptions of how the Muiderslot defense system worked to flood the fields and prevent invaders from getting access to the castle, along with an exhibit about how the water retention/ and dam technology has been built up over the last 800 years.

We got on the ferry back and enjoyed some beers while slowly making our way back to Amsterdam. We had a fun time at the castle, and on the ferry, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it just because it is annoying to get there and really takes up basically a whole day. Because the tram/tram/ferry/castle/tram/tram situation took up so much of our time, I picked us two small museums for after. This first I wanted to go to Was the Willet Holthuysen house, and we had a reservation at 3:45. I actually heard about this museum while on the canal tour boat! This is a fancy canal house owned by a wealthy couple in the late 1800s which was turned into a museum. The ferry was supposed to get back at 3 but we didn’t get off the boat until 3:30, and of course we needed to still take two trams to get where we were going. We (barely) missed the next tram, (story of our lives) but then once we caught the next one, seamlessly made the connection to the second tram. And we (eventually) made it to the museum at about 4:15, but turns out they didn’t really care about the reservation we got in just fine. I was expecting to be more wowed by this tour, but it was okay. It was Jam packed with a tour bus of older French speaking people. we hurried through the audio tour (skipping a couple steps) and ended up finishing in only 30 minutes, had plenty of time to spare before the museum closed at 5😂

The second museum I had picked basically just for the reason that it closed at 6 and we’d be able to squeeze it in. We took a meandering walk past the canals to get there. Amsterdam is SO much busier on Friday/Saturday night than when we first got there Thursday. This museum was called the Our Lord in the Attic Museum and was actually awesome! In the 1600s, the Dutch Reformed Church became the official national religion of the Netherlands. While there was “religious tolerance” for other religious beliefs, It became illegal for gatherings of people worshipping- so you could personally be Catholic in your own home but couldn’t gather together. So, a rich catholic merchant bought 3 adjoining canal houses and had the top floors of all three merged together to form a hidden church! This museum was a very cool slice of Amsterdam history, and now it makes sense why the other two churches we visited were no longer maintained or used as churches- they weren’t allowed to continue being Catholic Churches.

we walked around a bit more, finally getting some Stroopwafel! It is a sort of waffle cookie with syrup, absolutely Delicious, and I’d been looking forward to it all trip! last thing on my trip list to check off :) 

We finished off the night enjoying beer and fries (and not enjoying our burger) at a cute place outdoors overlooking the canal. perfect end to a perfect trip!!! and could not have asked for a better traveling companion than Lori Holycross Vaughan! Love you <3

PS: we have landed in Philadelphia and are killing time on a 6 hour layover! Uneventful train to the airport to the flight, with the exception of my king skirt getting STUCK in the escalator and me having to rip the skirt to get unstuck. 

PPS: now I have the travel bug! Who wants to plan a trip with me next???

[tigermike]

Muiderslot, Muiden, Netherlands. Morning on a wonderful day. Wander around happily. 🇳🇱