Bouvigne Castle in the Dutch province of North Brabant is located just outside the district of Ginneken and close to the Mastbos (forest) south of Breda. Behind it lies the Markdal (Mark valley).
It is not known exactly how old the castle is or what it originally looked like. From 1494 onwards, the De Boeverie estate had a stone house with a moat near the large and small farmhouses already situated there. The small farm was located at the intersection of the Duivelsbruglaan and the Bouvignelaan but went up in flames during the siege of Breda by Spinola in 1624. The large farm belonged to the Princes of Orange since 1614 and to the State since 1881. In 1941, the farm was destroyed by a V1 rocket but was later rebuilt.
There are three different gardens, all with statues:
* A French garden, laid out on the initiative of Mr. Leopold de Bruyn (the then owner) around 1913.
* An English garden, laid out around 1920. In the middle is a chapel, built in 1932 by the Pius X Foundation.
* A German garden, laid out in the thirties, with the former burial chapel of mgr Frans Frencken, the spiritual leader of the catechists, who died in 1946.
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