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The first castle built at
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Next, on the northwest corner, the remains of a foundation which protruded into the moat were found. After soundings, digging uncovered a complete western wing. It would be better to refer to a second castle, as it was about four times as large as what had been constructed up to then. See floor plan
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which could slide down through grooves in the walls. In the length the building had a stair which rose 3.10 m to reach a platform before the door of the main hall of the keep. Above the bottom of the stairs, there was a small barrel vault, which supported a space from which the portcullis could
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The second floor has walls of 95 cm thick. It was 3.60 m high, and had no fireplace. It had windows on all four sides. The three windows on each long side were 1.70 by 1.10 m with double shutters, and benches on the inside. This room was in open connection (no door) with the top floor
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In 1609 Jonkheer Jacob van den Eynde married Clara van
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The original basement of the keep was vaulted and has walls of a modest 1.42 m thickness. The vault is a barrel vault of one brick (c. 30 cm) thickness. The basement could only be reached from the first floor above it. It had a fireplace on the west side. It had small light opening on the
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The first floor or main hall, has walls of 1.22 m thick. It was about 6 m high, and had a tiled floor and a fireplace. The room had six relatively large windows of 150 * 64 cm, which could be closed by single shutters on the inside. A spiral stair in the southeastern corner probably
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that was designed to be built together, and standing free of a surrounding wall. This way the tower house, or keep, was really a refuge of last resort, instead of a part of the main defensive line. Tower castles are rare in the
Netherlands. Demolished examples are Groesbeek Castle, Swormertoren,
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The keep itself has a connected external gate building (not the gatehouse), which is very rare in the
Netherlands. Both are part of the current castle. The keep is now the central part of the castle, the gate building is now part of the building with the shed roof. The keep measures 12.60 by
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Even before the 1960 excavations there were clues that the castle that was burned in 1525 was much larger than the present castle. What was especially strange was the distance of 32 m between the western wall, and the keep. This was not logical from a defensive point of view.
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It was probably only in 1609 that the castle was restored. Jacob van den Eijnde then lived at the castle. Rutger Motte owned the castle between 1706 and 1709, and probably built the current western part of the castle, which has nothing to do with the late 15th century wing.
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Haamstede Castle. At the time the castle belonged to a branch of the Van Renesse family, naming itself Van Renesse van Haamstede. In about 1296 Jan van Renesse van Haamstede, son of Costijn died childless, leading to the count of Zeeland becoming owner of Haamstede.
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The gatehouse formed part of the first wall which surrounded the keep. Renaud thought it very likely that these were built at about the same time as the keep, but could not prove a date. He did find the remains of a corner tower on the northeastern corner.
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In the first half of the fourteenth century, a building was added to the southeast of the keep. This kind of hid the original gatehouse building, and later led to the strange shed roof. The barrel vaulted basement of this building is still intact.
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On the southwest corner, a large round tower was built into the moat. On the northwest corner was a large heavy square tower. The wing was extended to the east for about 10 m, and here the remains of two circular bread ovens were found.
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The third floor is no longer present. However, from the remains of two windows in the western wall, it can be deduced that the northern wall reached at least 3 m above the top of the second floor.
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In April 1853 Haamstede Castle was auctioned for 96,184.30 guilders. There were four buyers, but in 1863 Mr. C. van der Lek de Clerq became the sole owner.
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