Castle Eerde

Kasteel Eerde is situated on the Eerde estate in the Overijssel municipality of Ommen. The estate was once 150 hectares in size and stretched from the Overijsselse Vecht to the Regge. A stone arch bridge over the moat gives access to the castle. The first known records date from 1334 when it was spoken of Huis Eerde as the property of the ancestor of the von Eerde family and that more than a century later, in 1380, it was expanded into a castle. The heiress Margriet van Eerde married Evert van Essen around 1356, after which it remained in the latter family. Around 1405 it was bought by a scion of the Van Twickelo family which family retained it until marriage in 1583, after which it passed into the House of Renesse. The castle was besieged, looted, burned down and rebuilt many times. In 1521, the inhabitants of what was then Zwolle looted the castle again. The castle also recovered from this looting and it took its present form in 1715 under General Adolf Warner baron van Pallandt, from the Pallandt family, who had bought the castle from the Van Renesse family in 1708 and had the current house built there. In 1742, the castle and estate came into the possession of an uncle of the builder, August Leopold van Pallandt, rijksvrijheer van Pallandt, heer van Eerde, Beerse and Oosterveen. The park was changed to English landscape style and an orangery was added. Around 1900 the house was occupied by Rudolph baron van Pallandt, who died childless at the age of 44. He bequeathed Eerde to his hunting friend and distant cousin Philip Dirk baron van Pallandt. Philip van Pallandt donated large parts of the estate to charity.

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