Satellietfoto Cannenburch
(Vaassen, province of Gelderland) In 1534 marshall Maarten van Rossem bought the remains of an older house and built the house we see today, with its characteristic Renaissance ornaments on the projecting tower. Van Rossem bequeathed the house to his nephew Hendrik van Isendoorn a Blois, whose descendants lived here for 300 years. Elbert van Isendoorn expanded the building westward in 1661, at the cost of symmetry. In 1751, further renovations were made, including the move of the main entrance to the present front. The last Isendoorn heir, who was chamberlain to three kings, died in 1865, and after the death of his widow in 1881 there were plans to demolish Cannenburch. It was, however, bought by Baron van Lynden, and eventually sold for a symbolic sum to the Foundation Friends of Castles in Gelderland. After an extensive restoration, Cannenburch is now a museum, its period rooms furnished to give a lived-in impression.
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