Cannenburgh Castle![]() Maarten van Rossum, commander-in-chief of Charles of Gelre, bought in 1543 the ruins of the castle, with the intention to build a country house where he could retire. It became a big house with some square towers. They kept altering the house till the middle of the eighteenth century. In 1951 the house became property of the 'Foundation Castles of Gelre,' who restored it, and opened it to the public. ![]() Cannenburgh Castle in Vaassen, Gelderland. During the restoration they found a secret staircase in one of the walls. It was leading to a secret room where once a nobleman, one of the enemies of the Lord of Isendoorn, was bricked up alive. The ghost of this man walks through the castle, in search for a way to get out. He has been seen often behind one of the windows in the shape of an expanding and shrinking blue flame. ![]() The whole castle is surrounded by a big moat |
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