Winter at The Vanenburg Castle by Veluws

About "Winter at The Vanenburg Castle"

by Veluws

About the artwork

The name of Vanenburg, or at that time Vaenborch, is first mentioned in 1389 when it was given to Wolf van Putten as possession of Abdinghof Abdinghof in Paderborn. Most of the information from the early Middle Ages available from the castle comes from the archives of three monasteries, namely: the Werden Monastery, Saint Vitus Monastery in Elten and Abdinghof in Paderborn. The monasteries received land from landowners as gifts. Because the distance between the monasteries and the present-day pieces of land was so large, the day-to-day management of the farms was transferred to the inhabitant of the main farm of the goods. In 1559 the monastery in Paderborn bought the landings in Putten of the monastery in Werden. These goods also belonged to the "gut tho Nulde", which later became the Vanenburg.
After the estate was rented and resold several times over time, it was completely owned by Jan van Angeren in 1622. After his death, the estate was divided among his children, and from one of the documents from that time it was established that there was a house on the estate. This house would not have been in the same place as the current Vanenburg house, but according to tradition, "one quarter hour west of the new one". Furthermore, nothing is known with certainty about this house. In 1637 the estate was sold to Peter van Appeltoorn, after which it was auctioned publicly after his death. The highest bidder was Hendrick van Essen who bought the estate. In 1664