Request to restore removed Ingress portal
GeoTyros-ING
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Title of the Wayspot: Kasteel Vogelsanck
Location: http://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=51.00741,5.320533
City: Heusden-Zolder
Country: Belgium
This has been an Ingress portal since 2017. It meets all criteria to be a valid portal. It has been removed today without obvious reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogelsanck_Castle
Me in front of the portal.
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@NianticGiffard
Castle has been closed to visitors since the COVID outbreak.
They will probably restart the activities with visitors once we're back to normal.
It is a touristical hotspot opened to public on special occasions. One of the few water-surrounded castles left in mint condition
Architectural monuments are accepted. These include castles, palaces, old cattle houses, etc.
I tried posting a comment with a link but it seems that’s not allowed or something. Anyway.... one of the first hits on Google is an article that says castle was last open to visitors in 2018, long before covid was a thing. Only the domain around it is open for public. Castle is private property and inhabited by the family.
On all websites it says that the castle is privately owned, inhabited by a single family, and not open to the public.
translation of title of an article from 2018 : ‘castle for the very last time open for the public’
https://m.hbvl.be/cnt/dmf20181004_03810046
Appeal Denied - Thanks for the appeal, Agent. We have taken another look but stand by our decision to retire this Portal.
It is correct this was opened once to the public but after the opening nor more accessible to the public, in any website where information is sought it is found in clear and large letters that this castle is not more accessible to the public by doing this PrP and not accessible to anyone.