Netherlands · Restored
Trompenburgh
Trompenburgh is a 17th-century Dutch Baroque manor house in 's-Graveland, built for Admiral Cornelis Tromp and redesigned in the late 17th century. The mansion is almost entirely surrounded by water and deliberately resembles a ship, with deck-like walkways and railings around a brick base. It remains a preserved historic house on its original island setting.
First raised
1672
Its prime
1684
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1684
What Trompenburgh looked like in its prime.
The manor stands on a continuous brick plinth rising from a surrounding moat, with a dominant central domed pavilion capped by a small square cupola and an ornate wrought-iron finial in the shape of a ship. Flanking wings have steep hipped slate roofs with dormer windows and a rooftop balustrade. Facades are pale-painted vertical boarding above the brick base, with tall multi-paned windows, classical triangular pediments, small projecting balconies, arched openings at water level with statues, and deck-like railings following the waterline.
Its story
The story of Trompenburgh.
Before the present house was built, the plot at 's-Graveland belonged to Andries Bicker and his sister Dieuwertje; her son Joan van Hellemondt built a mansion there in 1654 called De Hooge Dreuvik. Through inheritance it passed to his widow, Margaretha van Raephorst, who in January 1667 married her neighbour, Admiral Cornelis Tromp — one of the naval heroes of the Dutch Republic.
The couple redecorated the house considerably, but the French army looted and burned it in February 1673, after the Dutch 'year of disaster'. Tromp rebuilt it from 1675 to 1684 to Daniël Stalpaert's Dutch Baroque design — a mansion almost entirely surrounded by water and built to resemble a ship, complete with decks and railings.
Tromp called the rebuilt house Sylisburg, after the Danish title of count of Sölvesborg granted to him in 1676, the year he became commander-in-chief of the Danish fleet. Only after his death in 1691 did it take the name Trompenburgh; around 1720 the estate passed to Jacob Roeters.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1684.
The record describes 7 distinct spots at Trompenburgh — including the full exterior approach. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
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Clans who held Trompenburgh.
The families that held Trompenburgh for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Tromp
Held by Admiral Cornelis Tromp from his 1667 marriage to Margaretha van Raephorst until his death in 1691; he rebuilt the house 1675–84.
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