Eerde is a
hamlet
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in the province of
Overijssel in the
Netherlands
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. It is part of the municipality of
Ommen
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Almelo
Almelo () is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The main population centres in the town are Aadorp, Almelo, Mariaparochie, and Bornerbroek.
Almelo has about 72,000 inhabitants in the middle of the rolling countryside of Twente, ...
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[''ANWB Topografische Atlas Nederland'', Topografische Dienst and ANWB, 2005.]
At the heart of the Eerde hamlet lies Eerde castle, a castle in the Dutch-classical style from 1715, surrounded by a
estate in the
Baroque style managed by the
Natuurmonumenten
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foundation since 1965.
[Stichting Natuurmonumenten]
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The first castle on this site was built in the 14th century, but was soon destroyed by the forces of the
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in 1380. The
Van Twickelo,
Van Renesse
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History
The eldest ancestor of this family was Jan van Renesse who is mentio ...
, and
Van Pallandt families have lived in castles on this site since.
In the early 1920s,
baron Philip van Pallandt deeded the castle and surrounding land to the
Order of the Star in the East
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philosopher and
spiritual teacher
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Jiddu Krishnamurti, of whom the baron was an avid follower. The Order held annual gatherings of its members in the castle grounds until its dissolution in 1929; the deed to the estate was officially transferred back to the van Pallandt family in 1931, however Krishnamurti continued to occasionally use the estate for lectures and meetings until the outbreak of
World War II
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. During the war the estate had been used as a concentration camp (
Camp Erika) by the occupying German forces, and afterwards Krishnamurti felt this precluded its use as a proper meeting space.
In 1934, the castle was turned into a school for Jewish children threatened by the Nazi regime. This school, founded by the
Quakers
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, had to be closed under pressure from the German occupiers in 1943. This boarding school was known as ''The International Quaker School Eerde''.
[ Hildegard Feidel-Mertz: ''Integration and Formation of Identity: Exile Schools in Great Britain'', SHOFAR, Fall 2004, Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 74. There is also an article in the German WIKIPEDIA: .]
After World War II in the castle a new boarding school was founded which is now known as International School Eerde,
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and it now offers
IGCSEs and
IB programmes to its students. Since the mid-fifties this school has no longer been run by the Quakers.
References
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Populated places in Overijssel
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