Tour of Ammerzoden and Ammersoyen Castle

Your route starts at Hoppies. Ammersoyen Castle in Ammerzoden was very popular due to its strategic location on the Maas. It was conquered in 1386 by Duke Willem I of Gelre, when the lord of the castle wanted to enter into an alliance with Johanna van Brabant. At the end of the fifteenth century it was sold to the lords of Arkel, feudal lords of the Count of Holland. After the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) various noble families owned the castle as a secondary residence. During the Second World War the castle was so badly damaged that the nuns, who had lived there since 1876, had to move. After the war the castle came into the possession of the later Stichting Geldersch Landschap en Kasteelen. You walk back along the Dode Maasarm near Well, nice and varied!