Loevestein Castle

Loevestein Castle is a medieval citadel in the municipality of Zaltbommel, Gelderland, the Netherlands. The castle become built by way of the knight Dirc Loef van Horne consequently "Loef's stein" stone residence between 1357 and 1397. Until World War II Loevestein Castle turned into a part of the Hollandic Water Line, the main Dutch defense line that was based on flooding a place of land south and east of the western provinces. Currently the fort is used as a medieval museum and characteristic centre. Loevestein is a water fort that turned into constructed among 1357 and 1368.

It was constructed in a strategic area within the center of the Netherlands, wherein the Maas and Waal rivers come together simply west of contemporary day villages of Poederoijen and Brakel, within the municipality of Zaltbommel, in Gelderland. At first it turned into a simple square brick building, used to fee toll from buying and selling vessels the usage of the rivers. By 1372, the citadel changed into beneath manipulate of the Counts of Holland. In the 16th century round 1575, orders given via William the Silent it became expanded to a larger castle surrounded with the aid of earthen fortifications with two later 3 stone bastions at the northern facet, moats, an arsenal, and housing for a commander and squaddies. The Castle became additionally part of the Hollandic Water Line.