Every design for Vaassen

Vaassen is known first and foremost for Kasteel Cannenburch, the sixteenth-century castle once home to the Guelders commander Maarten van Rossum. The village lies in the municipality of Epe, on the eastern edge of the Veluwe between Apeldoorn and Zwolle, and its name goes back to Fasna, an old word for a rough kind of grass.

The castle sets the tone for daily life. Families stroll through Park Cannenburch and the woods of Landgoed de Cannenburch, and the Cannenburger watermill turns on one of the brooks, and the Nijmolense Beek and the Smallertse Beek wind through the surroundings. In the centre, Daams' Mill had to be lifted almost five metres to keep its wind as the village grew around it. Vaassen has long been a place where Protestant and Catholic neighbours lived side by side, and a large Moluccan community has called it home since the nineteen-fifties. To the north-west lie Iron Age Celtic fields, small square plots edged with earth banks, and Vaassen Historie keeps track of the village's many layers.

The old railway station on the Baron line closed long ago, but the building still stands, lived in now, a quiet reminder of the trains that once ran between Apeldoorn and Zwolle.