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400 Years of Castle Ruins: Lage Celebrates Medieval Village Festival in August

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By Sascha Vennemann. In 1626 – so the story goes – rough characters inhabited the castle in Lage: The Spanish had occupied the structure, which an old document described as a "robber baron's nest and terror of Friesland." The Eighty Years' War was underway, and the Dutch besieged the castle that year. It was originally probably built in the 12th century and had only been repaired about 50 years earlier after its initial fall into disrepair. The …
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By Sascha Vennemann. In 1626 – so the story goes – rough characters inhabited the castle in Lage: The Spanish had occupied the structure, which an old document described as a "robber baron's nest and terror of Friesland." The Eighty Years' War was underway, and the Dutch besieged the castle that year. It was originally probably built in the 12th century and had only been repaired about 50 years earlier after its initial fall into disrepair. The …

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GN-Online broke the news in on Sunday, February 1, 2026.
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