Castle · Voorst · Updated on 1 November 2026.
Het Holthuis is a castle in Voorst, Gelderland, Netherlands. This place has a story in the app. Within 930 m you'll find a bench and a water point.
Story · Het Holthuis
You're standing at the Holthuis in Twello, a country house that was once a havezate, a noble residence with special rights. Have a look at the house: two storeys under a hipped roof that slopes down on all sides. On the corners you'll see chimneys topped with little wind caps.
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Start by looking at the house itself. It has 2 storeys under a hipped roof that slopes down on all sides. At the corners stand chimneys topped with wind caps. Then walk a loop through the park. Its layout was redesigned in 1925 by the firm Copijn en Zoon. You can see the house from the path through the park.
The site is much older than the house you see now. A castle called the Holthues is already mentioned here in 1374, and it had to pay part of its income to the Heilige Geest Gasthuis in Deventer. What that castle looked like is unknown, but it is known that it had a moat and an outer bailey. The property changed hands often over the following centuries, as the families Cuynre, Schull, Van der Hell and Van Renesse came and went. In 1719 the couple Brand-Seppe bought the castle. They demolished part of it and, on the old foundations, built a largely new country house in 1721. Drawings from 1743 show that it was then larger, with a hexagonal stair tower and a side wing with a square tower. That side wing and tower disappeared in the early nineteenth century, and the moats were filled in. Around 1874 the stair tower was also removed. In 1938 mayor Van der Feltz bought the neglected house and had it restored. In 1944 the occupiers seized it. By 1947 everything had been repaired.
Benches are available close to Castle Het Holthuis. The nearest one is 67 metres away, on the Holthuizerstraat, and there are 5 benches within 500 metres in total. Drinking water is not right at hand: there is no water tap within 500 metres. The nearest one is 927 metres away, on the Dorpsstraat, so visitors should bring enough water with them. According to our map, there are no toilets at Castle Het Holthuis either, and no public toilet within 1 km. Stopping at a toilet before setting off is therefore a sensible step.
The nearest pitstop of each kind within 1 km, as the crow flies. No public toilet, bike pump or honesty box within 1 km.
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Het Holthuis is in Twello, in the municipality of Voorst in Gelderland. It is a country house that was once a havezate, a noble residence with special privileges.
A castle called the Holthues is already mentioned on this site in 1374, but the current country house dates from 1721. The Brand-Seppe couple bought it in 1719 and built a largely new house on the old foundations.
At Het Holthuis, the main attractions are outside: the dovecote and the park. The dovecote stands on the spot where an aircraft crashed, and the park was redesigned in 1925 and received a geometric garden two years later.
Yes, the nearest bench is 67 metres from Het Holthuis, on the Holthuizerstraat. There are 5 benches within 500 metres.
No, there is no water point within 500 metres of Het Holthuis. The nearest one is 927 metres away, on the Dorpsstraat.
No, according to our map there is no public toilet within 1 km of Het Holthuis.
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