The Muiderslot in Muiden
(Herengracht 1) is a moat, almost square castle with round corner towers and in the middle of the east facade a square gate tower with drawbridge and masonry bridge. A castle built shortly after 1280 by count Floris V on a sandbank in the mouth of the river Vecht was after his violent death (1296) destroyed in 1297 by the bishop of Utrecht. On the...
