kasteel boxmeer

Jan de Beijer drawings, from Emmerik to Roermond. Part V, print 125 1740 in gray wash pen drawing, 216 322 mm signed at the bottom left of the drawing in later handwriting: DBeyer. annotated on the back: 1 Castle in Boxmeer, in the land of Cuik. 1740. 2 Dor Sambeek. p Boxrneer castle was still surrounded by two moats in the eighteenth century. On the right in the foreground the Lake, showing two fishermen in a boat. The dirt road, on the foreground in the middle, leads over a dike in the moat between the high earthen wall and over a bridge to the. entrance gate of the castle. The high wall, which lay behind the outer moat, on which lime trees were planted, had a dual function: of course it served as a fortification of the castle on the first place, but in the second place as a dike against the high water level. het Meer, which had an open connection with the Maas. The entrance consists of a baroque gate and two round corner turrets, which are connected by a wall corridor. To the left of the gate, the wall connects and the actual living area, which turns into a round weather tower with a Baroque roof crown. To the right is the court chapel in the courtyard of the castle. The church tower of Sambeek looks out over the lake. The history of the castle is rich in variety. In 1572 the castle was largely demolished by order of the Duke of Alva. In 1577 it was redone by Count Willem van den Bergh, Lord of Boxmeer, and a brother-in-law of William of Orange, and in the following years the eastern part was rebuilt. In 1712 the family of the Counts van Bergh died out and the manor of Boxmeer was inherited by Frans Willem, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, a great-nephew, on the condition that he would take the coat of arms and the name of the Counts of Bergh . When he died in 1737, he was succeeded by his son Jan Baptist, who died in 1782. In 1752, however, they had the "mad earl", as he was called, of his administrative duties of the Duchy of Gelder and the County of Zutfen. after which these were observed by the Raden Antoon Aloysius Mainhard Frans Graaf van den Bergh, Prins. All kinds of weeds grow on the choir walls. o The molds, who had been in possession of the church since June 10, 1648 after the Peace of Munster, had set up a floating space in the hall under the tower after the fire of 1702. On the ground a c farmer's wife left a few cows; On the right a number of men are on a scaffolding sawing tree trunk into planks. and with a pull saw. The drawing is on one sheet (bottom) with the drawing of the chapel of Vortum (cat. no. 128) and goes back to a nature study made in 1743. Lit .: Romers, no. 1230. Zeist, National Agency for the Preservation of Monuments.