About Henkenshage
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Fortifications, Historic, Interesting Places, Manor Houses, Castles
Henkenshage is a notable building located in the municipality of Sint-Oedenrode in the Netherlands. It is a former fortified farmhouse, known in the 14th century as a Strijpe or Streepe. The building, often mistaken for a castle, is not a real castle but rather a manor house.
In 1818, Henkenshage was bought by Dutch diplomat and civil servant Christaan Diederik Emerens Johan Bangeman Huygens, who was Minister Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Washington, D.C. from 1825 to 1832. Born in Sint-Oedenrode, he lived at the mansion for a period and in 1843 it went to his only son, Rutger Bangeman Huygens van Löwendal.