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The castle was built in 1668 on the foundations of an earlier construction, in the then popular Dutch
Neoclassical style. It was probably built by the Haarlem architect Erasmus den Otter. The former castle, whose stone well from 1550 still exists in the woods, had been destroyed by the Spanish in
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would pass this castle and wonder at the many foreign plants and trees. A tulip tree in the park that was planted by
Boerhaave himself lived until the 1990s.
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The onion domes were added after Herman
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Boerhaave bought the castle in 1724 and designed the garden for his large botanical collection that no longer fit in the
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