A beautiful walk around Geijsteren

You can take a lovely walk around the Limburg village of Geijsteren. You walk to the ruins of Geijsteren Castle and across the ancient Geijsteren Estate.

Geijsteren Castle
Geijsteren Castle was originally built in the early 1200s. The building was destroyed by a major fire in 1918. The rebuilt castle did not last long: it was bombed by the English in 1944 to prevent the Germans from taking it as a lookout post. The ruin has recently been restored, so that the contours of the castle are visible again. Upon entering you can see on the basis of photos what the castle looked like before the bombardment.

Geijsteren estate
At Landgoed Geijsteren it is wonderfully quiet to walk through the woods. You will pass the Gothic Sint-Willibrordus chapel from 1543. Court sessions and sacrificial acts were already held here in Frankish times. The chapel contains a Willibrordus statue from the seventeenth century and a reredos from the eighteenth century. In the Dorpsstraat of Geijsteren you can see some monumental farms.