Ter Worm Castle is a castle located near the Dutch-Limburg town of Welten, a district in the municipality of Heerlen. The castle is part of the Ter Worm estate of the same name, which includes the Eikendermolen.
For most of the 20th century, the castle and its estate were owned by the Oranje-Nassau Mine. Under the estate lies the corridor system of the former coal mine. Overseers, artists, the forester and the lifeguard lived at the castle during that period. Near the castle at the time was a large outdoor swimming pool, where entire generations of Voerendalers and Heerlen citizens learned to swim. After the mine closure, government officials and the ON proposed to establish a large-scale amusement park on the estate. The people of Heerlen literally and figuratively ran afoul of these amusement park plans in a massive and widely supported protest march in 1983. In the last decades of the 20th century, the castle fell into serious disrepair until it was bought up by hotel chain Van der Valk. That restored the castle between 1997 and 1999. Now it houses a hotel and restaurant.
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