Nijenrode Castle was built around 1260 by Knight Gerard Splinter van Ruwiel. The location of the Castle was well-chosen: a strategic spot on the narrowest part of the bank of the river Vecht. The river Vecht was part of the trade route from the market-town of Utrecht to the Dutch South Sea.
Kasteel Nijenrode www.nyenrode.nl/en/experience-nyenrode/nyenrode-breukelen... www.nyenrode.nl/ervaar-nyenrode/kasteel-en-landgoed/kasteel
Kasteel Nijenrode in Madurodam Port of Rotterdam and the Holland Amerika Lijn www.flickr.com/photos/aasgier/8607919109/in/photostream
Castle Nijenrode Breukelen aan de Vecht See where this picture was taken. [?]
The mensa: restaurant for the students
pavillion
The deer-parc
Impressions of Castle Nijenrode /Holland
CASTLE NIJENRODE Nyenrode Business Universiteit, also spelled as Nijenrode, is a Dutch business school and the only private university in the Netherlands. Founded in 1946, it is located on a large estate called Castle Nijenrode, in the town of Breukelen, between Amsterdam and Utrecht.
Kasteel Nijenrode, Madurodam