User:Kvanval2/Valkenburg Castle

The Velvet cave is a major attraction of the Valkenburg castle. The cave was located below the Valkenburg castle hidden. The cave was used to mine our the stone. There was multiple uses for the cave for the block cutters the stone was marlstone in the 11th and 12th century, later in time the the cave was used to be a shelter and hideout for the villagers in world war two. The castle also has it very own chapel in the cave. The chapel was one of the places where mass would be held. The cave also would have escape routes from the castle the routes where created for the purpose to be able to escape during the siege that had happened twice before to the castle. The routes were also used to store food. The castle had takeovers from sieges in 1465, 1568, 1632, and 1672 from King Stadtholder Willem lll. This was the last destruction of the castle and are now what the ruins are. In 1937 during restorations of the castle it was discovers that there was secret passage ways below the castle. These passages were used for knights during sieges.