#muiderslot

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Muiderslot Castle - NETHERLANDS

[littlecakeclub]

"She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds." Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

[kylobith]

Today was good because I visited a castle.

[tomorrowingray]

[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).

[alittleplanttherapy]

The Muiderslot gardens 🐝 | Netherlands

[bidoctor]

We visited the Muiderslot today and it was beautiful ✨

[thedollcafe]

J-Doll by Eirien