Nijswiller Castle

Nijswiller Castle is located on the east side of the village of the same name in the municipality of Gulpen-Wittem in Dutch Limburg. The castle is a national monument.

The castle is located in a place where the immediate vicinity of the Selzerbeek made it possible to feed the moat of the castle with the stream water. In the fourteenth century there was probably a residential tower here, in the fifteenth century a farm. This was the origin of the De Geloes family. The farm came into the possession of the Van Caldenborg family through inheritance. In 1505 it passed into the hands of another family, when Catherine of Caldenborg married Jan van Eynatten. In the second half of the sixteenth century, the Van Eynatten family built a castle near the farm. This property came into the possession of the Van Schaesberg family called Strijthagen by inheritance. However, the family preferred their house Strijthagen to the small castle in Nijswiller and therefore rented the latter from 1597 to Squire Leonard van Merssen, who lived in the house until his death in 1643.

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