Hoensbroek Castle
Hoensbroek Castle stands for almost seven centuries of the past. On the place where now the impressive hall building stands, a stronghold was built around 1205, a fortress with extremely thick walls. More then a century later, duchess Johanna of Brabant passed land to knight Herman Hoen where he constructed a stronghold with a keep as defence. The medieval, round battle tower is still intact. The spacious square tower was added in the second half of the sixteenth century. In 1643, count Adrian of Hoensbroek commissioned the extension of the stronghold. The construction of economic buildings also commenced in that period. In the eighteenth century, count Arnold of Hoensbroek decided to construct a residential wing in refined, luxurious French style on the spot of the stronghold. In between keep and seventeenth-century wing, quarters were constructed with high, tall windows and doors.
Hoensbroek: an impressive castle with two large towers.
There is a blue lady wandering around in the castle of Hoensbroek. She is said to have been an inhabitant of the castle, whose two children died at an early age. They were supposedly buried inside the castle walls while the blue lady wasn't informed. Now she searches for them at night. Many people that have worked at the castle at night claim to have seen the blue lady. One security guard swears that he heard chairs being moved in a room he had just visited and when he went back to take a look, he indeed found the chairs in a different position than he had seen them just a moment before. The walls of the castle sound solid when knocking on them, except for one wall, which sounds hollow. It has never been investigated, but could this be the place where the two children are buried?