Doorn

Doorn is a town in the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug in the vital Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. On 1 January 2017, the city had 10,067 inhabitants. In a record from 885 to 896, the settlement is known as "Thorhem", living of Thor, the God of Thunder. Vikings quartered at Dorestad, referred to as the location Thorhem because reputedly, the god of thunder turned into worshipped there. Indeed, archeological diggings in a moor at the property of Hoog Moersbergen, north of Doorn, prove that there has been a pagan sacrificial website online. At the time, the agreement of Thorhem belonged to the domicile of Villa Thorhem.

Around 1200 this homestead become in the ownership of a provost of the Bishopric of Utrecht. He or certainly one of his successors had a citadel built in the 14th Century, now Huis Doorn, and a church called the Maartenskerk round 1200. The church became prolonged inside the fifteenth century. It fell into Protestant palms round 1585 and is still in use as a Protestant church. Another castle, Kasteel Moersbergen, turned into first noted in 1435 and has been altered several times for the reason that seventeenth Century.