Greeningen as a stopping place

The name Groeningen comes from Groene inge, meaning low lying grassland.

Groeningen was especially important as a stopping place for mail wagons and other traffic moving along the trade road from Cologne to Den Bosch. Later it became a stopping place for traffic between Venlo and Nijmegen, where mail wagons in both directions met. Luggage was also reloaded here from one wagon to another.

There was also a castle in this village, mentioned in 1532. It was the ancestral castle of the Van de Voirt family, while later it belongedto the Collaert van Lyndenfamily, and at the end of the 17th century to the Van Ravenschot van Capelle family. These also owned the Hertogentoren (or: De Spycker) and the Joncker Collaertz hoff.