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Doorwerth Castle

Doorwerth Castle is a medieval riverside castle on the Rhine near Arnhem in the Netherlands. It developed from a stone hall-keep with a surrounding moat into a complex of connected buildings on a bailey and now functions as a restored historic house museum.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

First raised

1402

Its prime

1560

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1560

The shape it held in its prime.

A masonry medieval castle sited at the edge of the River Rhine, set within a surrounding moat fed by the river. The silhouette centers on a rectangular hall-keep flanked by contiguous ranges of stone buildings on a single bailey, forming a unified complex. Solid masonry curtain ranges rise from the water, with a compact roofline of joined roofs above the bailey buildings; the ensemble is complete and occupied in its mid-16th-century appearance.

Step inside

6 places to explore in 1560.

The record describes 6 distinct spots at Doorwerth Castle — including 3 interiors: hall-keep (great chamber), room later known as beaulieu (principal chamber), gallery/room later used by the artillery museum. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Approach from the river RhineMoat and waterlineInner bailey courtyardHall-keep (great chamber)Room later known as Beaulieu (principal chamber)Gallery/room later used by the artillery museum

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See Doorwerth Castle with the fires lit.

The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1560 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.

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