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Ruins · Molenlanden · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Ruins Giessenburg in Molenlanden

Giessenburg is a ruin in Molenlanden, South Holland. This place has a story in the app. Within 130 m you'll find a bench.

Ruins Giessenburg in Molenlanden
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Photo: Peter van der Wielen · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons
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The story

Story · Giessenburg

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You're standing at what was once the Giessenburg, the castle that gave this village its name. There isn't much stone left. So look at the shape of the land instead. The castle sat in a bend of the little river Giessen, which is where the name comes from. Can you make out the two moats, now heavily overgrown? And between them, a mound with earthen banks? A residential tower once stood on that small hill.

Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).

Photos

3 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.

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Photo: Peter van der Wielen · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons

Facilities near Giessenburg

The nearest pitstop of each kind within 1 km, as the crow flies. No water point, public toilet, bike pump or food stand within 1 km.

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Groothoofdspoort
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Groothoofdspoort · 13.9 km

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Grote of Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk
AttractionAudio story · 2 min

Grote of Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk · 14.6 km

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Photo: Michiel Verbeek · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons
Nationaal Baggermuseum
MuseumStory

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Photo: Loek Tangel · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons
Fort bij het Steurgat
FortStory

Fort bij het Steurgat · 4.8 km

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Photo: Kris Roderburg · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons

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