Netherlands · Ruin
Valkenburg Castle
Valkenburg Castle is a medieval hilltop castle ruin above Valkenburg aan de Geul in the Netherlands. Built from the early 12th century and rebuilt over later centuries, the surviving fabric is the result of damage and partial dismantling in 1672. The site includes an extensive system of man-made marlstone caves and a chapel hewn in the rock beneath the castle.
First raised
1115
Its prime
1400
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1400
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact hilltop fortress of pale yellow-beige marlstone with an irregular plan: high rectangular keep and several shorter round and rectangular towers linked by thick curtain walls, a prominent gatehouse opening to an inner courtyard, and an arcaded range of pointed Gothic arches along one side of the yard. At prime the roofs were pitched and tiled, battlemented parapets topped the towers, a surrounding moat sat at the hill base, and the courtyard held stone bases and a central well.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1400.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Valkenburg Castle — including 4 interiors: gatehouse passage, velvet cave entrance, chapel in the cave and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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