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Nijenhuis is a castle and an estate near Diepenheim in the municipality Hof van Twente, Netherlands (province
Overijssel Overijssel (, ; nds, Oaveriessel ; german: Oberyssel) is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands located in the eastern part of the country. The province's name translates to "across the IJssel", from the perspective of the ...
).


History

The Nijenhuis is first mentioned around 1380 in a list of vassals of the
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. Arend Sticke was then a vassal. In the middle of the fifteenth century it came into the hands of the Van Beckum family through inheritance. Well-known owners were Johan van Beckum and his wife Ursula van Werdum who, like Johan's sister
Maria van Beckum Maria van Beckum (before 1510 – 13 November 1544) was a Dutch noblewoman and Anabaptist executed for heresy. Maria was born in Markelo as the daughter of Johan II van Beckum (d. 1526) and Johanna van Wrede (died before 1511). She was the si ...
, was burned alive in 1544 as an
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anabaptist Anabaptism (from New Latin language, Neo-Latin , from the Greek language, Greek : 're-' and 'baptism', german: Täufer, earlier also )Since the middle of the 20th century, the German-speaking world no longer uses the term (translation: "Re- ...
in Delden. Johan van Beckum remarried, but transferred the Nijenhuis to his sister Adriana and her husband Gerrit Swaefken. Swane Swaefken, daughter of Gerrit, married Roelof van Hövell. After the death of the last Van Hövell in 1788, the manor house passed to A.C.J. van Westerholt who gave it to Mr. Willem Cornelis Boers in 1791.


The Schimmelpenninck family

Boers sold the Nijenhuis in 1799 to the wine merchant Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, who bought it for his son Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761-1825). From 1805 to 1806 he was Grand pensionary was of the
Batavian Republic The Batavian Republic ( nl, Bataafse Republiek; french: République Batave) was the successor state to the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. It was proclaimed on 19 January 1795 and ended on 5 June 1806, with the accession of Louis Bona ...
. Since then, the Nijenhuis has remained in the possession of the
Schimmelpenninck Schimmelpennin(c)k is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1848) * Luud Schimmelpennink (born 1935), Dutch social inventor, industrial designer, entrepreneur and pol ...
s. Other well-known members of the family are
Gerrit Schimmelpenninck Gerrit, Count Schimmelpenninck (25 February 1794 – 4 October 1863) was a Dutch businessman and politician, whose views ranged from liberal to conservative. He was the son of Grand Pensionary Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck and a member of the Dutc ...
(1794-1863), Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck van Nijenhuis (1821-1893) and Sander Schimmelpenninck (born 1984).


Building

Philips Vingboons designed the central part of Nijenhuis, a Dutch neoclassicistic mansion built around 1662. Abraham Martinus Sorg, town architect of
Kampen, Overijssel Kampen () is a city and municipality in the province of Overijssel, Netherlands. A member of the former Hanseatic League, it is located at the lower reaches of the river IJssel. The municipality of Kampen had a population of in and covers an are ...
modernised the building from 1791 to 1794. To the front two polygonal towers were added by Gerrit Schimmelpenninck in 1858 and two rectangular wings at the rear by Lodewijk Hieronymus Schimmelpenninck in 1914-1915. The manor has remained largely intact with sheds, a workshop, a vegetable garden with orangery, a park with a tea house and an ice cellar.


Gallery

Ontwerp voor een verbouwing van Nijenhuis te Diepenheim, rond 1770.jpg, Design for a renovation of Nijenhuis, around 1770. Aanzicht, reproductie van foto in bezit van Mevr.Schimmelpenninck. - Diepenheim - 20057047 - RCE.jpg, H. M. van Eck: Overview of Nijenhuis, etching 1827, like his watercolor rendition. Nijenhuis in Diepenheim, foto rond 1890.jpg, Photograph of Nijenhuis, around 1890.


Engraving and paintings

Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, gravure ‘physiotrace’, Parijs, rond 1800.jpg, Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, engraving 'physionotrace', Paris, around 1800. Louis-Léopold Boilly - Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, vader van Rutger Jan, rond 1804.jpg, Louis-Léopold Boilly: Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, father of Rutger Jan, around 1804. File:Charles Howard Hodges - Catharina Nahuys, Nijenhuis Diepenheim, 1804.jpg, Charles Howard Hodges: Catharina Nahuys, Nijenhuis Diepenheim, 1804. Nijenhuis, Diepenheim. Charles Howard Hodges - Johanna Philippina von Knobelsdorff, vrouw van Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, rond 1824.jpg, Charles Howard Hodges: Johanna Philippina von Knobelsdorff, wife of Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, about 1824.


See also

*
Nijenhuis (Olst-Wijhe) The Nijenhuis is an estate near the village Heino in the province of Overijssel, The Netherlands. The estate holds an avezathe (a kind of manor house, typical for Overijssel). The building is in use by Museum de Fundatie as an exhibition space ...
— a castle with the same name near Heino, also in the Dutch province of
Overijssel Overijssel (, ; nds, Oaveriessel ; german: Oberyssel) is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands located in the eastern part of the country. The province's name translates to "across the IJssel", from the perspective of the ...
.


Literature

* A.J. Gevers and A.J. Mensema, ''De havezaten in Twente en hun bewoners'' (translation: The manors in Twente and their occupants), Rijksarchief in Overijssel en Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle, 1995, ISBN 90-400-9766-6. In Dutch.


External link

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References

{{Refs Castles in Overijssel Hof van Twente