Bike Touring Highlight (Segment)
Nice view of the allotment gardens behind the dike and the Thyssenkrupp iron and steel works. The dike is extremely high here at 10 meters due to subsidence.
March 15, 2018
The name Laar probably goes back to hlar, which means "pasture ground". Laar (by Lare teghen Hombergh) was first mentioned in 1280 in a (lost) certificate of the Abbey Hamborn, which handles the fishing rights. The second oldest document of 1282 deals with the ownership, which until then had been with Mechthild von Holten, who sold the farm Laar in Amte Beeck but then to the monastery of the Cistercians in Sterkrade.
July 10, 2017
Scuttled foot / bike path on the dike. In good weather relatively full, in bad weather many puddles ...
October 7, 2017
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