VRIJ

Culemborg, Netherlands · Meetings · Weddings

Exclusive-use estate in Culemborg for company events and weddings, from 25 to 130 guests, with 9 hectares of grounds and free parking

VRIJ is a restored listed farm on Landgoed Anckerwaerdt in Culemborg, hired as a whole for one group a day. It hosts meetings, training days, company parties and weddings for 25 to 130 guests, with fresh food from its own kitchen.

Maximum capacity: 130
Event spaces: 5
Outdoor spaces: Yes
Rooms with daylight: Yes
Audiovisual equipment: Yes

Event spaces

De DeelMain hall for food, drinks and parties, opens to the terrace
Boven de DeelFormer hayloft, high ceiling, daylight, professional audiovisual equipment, wedding ceremony option
De ZichtkamerView over the river Lek, with or without open fire
De VoorkamerWooden ceiling, cloakroom or event office
Het Bakhuisjeup to 6Newly built, in the stable, small meetings and training, own driveway and garden

Getting there and practical details

Neighborhood: Landgoed Anckerwaerdt, beside the dyke
Nearest airport: Amsterdam Schiphol
Nearest station: Culemborg

VRIJ in Culemborg is hired as a whole: on the day of an event, the entire estate belongs to one group. The site speaks of events for 25 to 130 guests, with a minimum group size of 25 for the full venue. It hosts company meetings, training days, product launches and parties, and also weddings. The venue is a restored listed building on Landgoed Anckerwaerdt, beside the dyke in Culemborg.

Seminars and company events

VRIJ is not a standard meeting venue. The organiser does not rent a room but a whole location, so nobody else walks through the building during the event. The site names the formats it takes: meetings, relation events, business drinks, anniversaries, company parties, product presentations, training days, master classes, retreats, webinars, team building and book launches.

A workshop with a plenary room and breakout rooms is possible. The organiser tells the team how many guests each room needs and whether audiovisual equipment is wanted, and the team sets it up. A living-room layout instead of theater rows is possible, since the venue has a range of furniture that moves. For groups of up to six, the newly built Het Bakhuisje in the former stable offers a smaller meeting or training space with its own driveway, parking and garden.

Weddings and receptions

Couples can marry at VRIJ. The whole estate is theirs for the day. The site describes a ceremony in the Notenlaan or above the Deel, dinner next to the vegetable garden or on the terrace, and the party in the Deel. Everything is made to measure: no standard menus, brochures or compulsory suppliers. The venue also hosts birthdays, anniversaries, drinks, family days and reunions.

Rooms and capacities

The spaces are the Deel, the main hall where guests eat and drink, and the Boven de Deel, the former hayloft with a high ceiling, daylight and professional audiovisual equipment. The Zichtkamer looks over the river Lek and can have an open fire. The Voorkamer has a handmade wooden ceiling and works as a cloakroom or an office for the event manager. Outside there are 9 hectares of grounds and a large terrace. The site does not give capacities per room or layout. Ask the team for a plan.

Accommodation

The site does not describe bedrooms for event guests. Het Bakhuisje is presented as a meeting space.

Catering

Food is prepared fresh from the venue's open kitchen, with produce from its own vegetable garden and from local suppliers. The venue does not rent out the location bare, with an outside caterer, or in part: catering is part of the booking, and a per-guest amount is added to the hire according to the wishes of the organiser.

History and setting

VRIJ was originally a farm. It has been renovated in a stylish way as a listed building, and it stands on Landgoed Anckerwaerdt, at the dyke along the river. The owner and host is Moniek Spruit.