Τα 20 καλύτερα φυσικά μνημεία Cranendonck

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Small parking lot and starting point for various walks, depending on the direction you leave, you can walk straight into the Netherlands.

Here you can see how high the water level is in this peat area.

The visible mound bodies of heathland plaggen, in round or elongated form, such as burial mounds and long beds, characterize the landscape. A total of 312 round burial mounds and 36 long beds have been registered on the Boshoverheide. The length of the long beds varies between 4.5 and 42 m. The mounds of the Boshoverheide are on average not very high. Of the mounds that were still completely preserved and have since been restored, more than two thirds are no higher than half a meter. The diameter of these mounds ranges from about 4 to 8 meters. The largest mound with a diameter of 17 meters is also the highest at 1.2 meters. Source: https://archeoroutelimburg.nl/de/locatie/archaologische-statte-weert-urnenfeld

Beautiful hiking area. Rightly a national park!

An old production forest that is being transformed into mixed forest. Yet a very varied forest with heathland areas and wetlands

Unfortunately, there isn't much to see "live". More for insiders. 💁🏻‍♂️

As I previously wrote on https://www.komoot.com/nl-nl/highlight/3048391, the Smeetshof is both the name of the farm where the walks depart and the nature reserve through which the walks pass. The farm was renovated in 1913 and called Smeetshof by the then owners, contractor Smeets-Clerx from Eksel. The buildings have been the property of the Flemish Land Company since 1999, which makes them available as part of the 't Smeetshof nature development project, as you can read on the information board with the photos. It also states that the Brussels lawyer family Mahieu built the first home here in 1874 after they bought the land from the widow de l'Escaille-d'Erp de Holt after the costs of the large-scale reclamation of former municipal lands in the former swamp forest here. had risen high.