Castle De Hooge Vuursche

Castle de Hooge Vuursche is an early 20th century villa.

The extensive forests between Baarn and Hilversum were owned in the 19th century by Miss Louise Charlotte Rutgers van Rozenburg (1854 - 1908) and are known as the Hooge Vuursche. She marries the young Johannes Adrianus Leonard van den Bosch, and together they live in a house on the site where the castle now stands.

After her death, Van den Bosch marries Baroness van Hardenbroek, and commissions master builder Eduard Cuypers to construct a castle. Many of the ornaments are depictions related to shipping, as Van den Bosch is a merchant marine officer. The gardens are designed by landscape architect Tersteeg from Naarden.

The entrance gate bears the year 1912, but it is assumed that the castle was completed in 1911.

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