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Solse Gat

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Solse Gat

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Solse Gat

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Location: Putten, Gelderland, Netherlands

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1. View of Radio Kootwijk – Radio Kootwijk loop from Barneveld Zuid

146km

10:12

620m

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route.

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2. View of the Speulderveld Heath – Solse Gat loop from Putten

28.0km

01:45

100m

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Solse Gat – Drieërweg Café loop from Garderen

33.2km

02:01

130m

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Eddy Schouten

June 5, 2021

The legend of the Solse Gat:

There once stood a mighty monastery with many towers. It was surrounded by a moat and a wide, stately avenue led to the gate.

But it was an angry monastery; the ruler and all the monks had sold their souls to the devil. They lived a life of excess and luxury. In the middle of the night the black mass was read in which all the witches and ghosts from the area participated. People drank wine from buckets and lavish meals were served all night long. The devil made sure that the supply never ran out and he mixed the wine himself. There was dancing, singing and cursing until the early morning. Many had heard strange and terrifying noises within the monastery at night, and everyone knew that the windows of all the halls were brightly lit all night long.

That lasted until a stormy Christmas night, centuries ago now. The villagers stayed in their houses in fear during that storm and suddenly heard one loud clap of thunder in the middle of the night. The next morning a little boy came running into the village and said that the monastery in the forest had completely disappeared and that a chillingly deep pit had been created in that place. The trees around it lay uprooted on the ground. All residents wanted to see the miracle. One found another cobbled street and the wide, stately avenue; that was all that remained of the monastery. The earth had opened and closed again.

Since then, a strange sound has come from the depths of the Solse hole at midnight. The bells of the sunken monastery begin to ring irregularly and hoarsely, as if they were all cracked; soft at first, but increasingly louder and more anxious. Then from the darkness of the wide avenue come the spirits of the monks. While complaining, they walk in a long gloomy row: slowly and hunched, they walk around the hole, from which a blue glow rises. Then they all float restlessly apart, to slowly emerge from the shadow of the avenue in a long line. This continues until daylight, when they suddenly flee, wailing, into the deepest darkness of the gloomy pit.

As soon as the sun shines, it is as if nothing has happened. Everything is quiet and one would almost doubt that just before the shadows disappeared into the water in the middle of the pit of the Solse gat.

See also: beleven.org/story/de_legende_van_het_solse_gat

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Bumble-Bee

April 12, 2020

Forest pond - nice for a picnic.

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Jan van den Hoff 🌲

July 10, 2021

Beautiful lake in the middle of the beautiful (hilly) forest. Accessible via beautiful and surprising paved forest paths.

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Location: Putten, Gelderland, Netherlands

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Solse Gat

1. View of Radio Kootwijk – Radio Kootwijk loop from Barneveld Zuid

2. View of the Speulderveld Heath – Solse Gat loop from Putten

3. Solse Gat – Drieërweg Café loop from Garderen

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