Lyndenstein State, Beetstersweach

Posted by Illuci (Hurdegaryp, Netherlands) on 4 December 2008 in Architecture and Portfolio.

Beeststersweach (Friesian, in Dutch: Beetsterzwaag) is a village in South-East Friesland where in the 19th century many of the Friesian nobility had their houses. The more influential and powerful a family was, the bigger their house. Baron Lyndenstein was a "grietman", kind of district-mayor in one of Friesland's districts, under the government of king Willem I, the first Dutch king (outside the French king Louis Napoleon of course, but he was a Frenchman). Nowadays the house is a physiotherapy centre, and I think the mainenance costs which must be huge, are subsidised.

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