Castle · Oegstgeest · Updated on 1 November 2026.
Oud Poelgeest is a castle in Oegstgeest, South Holland. This place has an audio tour of about 2 minutes, in English or Dutch. Within 530 m you'll find a bench and a water point.
Audio tour · Oud Poelgeest
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You're standing at Oud-Poelgeest Castle in Oegstgeest, just north-west of Leiden. First, look at the towers with their onion domes. They look old, but they were only added in the nineteenth century. The castle itself got its present shape in the seventeenth century.
Read and hear 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).
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.
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