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ヘルク＝デ＝スタッドは、保護された景観「Oude boomkwekerij De Pierpont」を誇りを持って所有しています。地元では、オルメンホフ公園やハルラズの森としても知られています。全体の広さはおよそ15ヘクタールです。 市営公園には、池、森、樹木のグループ、芝生があります。珍しい樹木の豊富なコレクションがあり、そのうちのいくつかは100年以上前のものです。https://www.herk-de-stad.be/uit-herk-de-stad/park-olmenhof-harlaz ピエルポン城は、19世紀前半の後期古典主義様式の小さな城で、修復された馬車小屋は現在カフェとして使用され、本館は市庁舎として使用されています。https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/22438

The description is very accurate. Thank you.

Very relaxing, beautiful well-maintained paths.

Beautiful pond park with old trees

Always very pleasant to walk/run in this beautiful park

Tree nurseryman Jean Dieudonné Hermans, farmer and municipal receiver of Herk and Berbroek, chose the domain now called Olmenhof and Harlaz to practice his hobby. He tried to make rare and difficult to grow trees thrive here by grafting them onto native rootstocks. This is how his pleasure garden ‘De Concorde’ came into being. The tree nursery was located on the plot between the Olmenhof and the centre. He succeeded in his experiment. Several trees that he planted can still be seen in the park today. Hermans built a small castle in the park between 1810 and 1840, in which he lived. The castle ‘de Pierpont’ now serves as the town hall. The Olmenhof-Harlaz park is fully owned by the municipality and is used as a municipal park with, among other things, a mini golf course and a zoo. It consists of, among other things, ponds, forest, groups of trees and a lawn. The highway from Herk-de-Stad to Sint-Truiden divides the domain into a western part, park Olmenhof, and an eastern part, forest de ‘Harlaz’. The whole is approximately 15 ha in size. The domain ‘Oude boomkwekerij De Pierpont’, as the domain Olmenhof-Harlaz is officially called, was protected as a landscape by Ministerial Decree of 23 March 1987 for reasons of its (natural) scientific, (cultural) historical and aesthetic value.

The ponds of Nieuwenhove are about to change. Nieuwenhove is getting a brand new visitors centre in the form of a pavilion on screw piles at the historic pond, which should make it seem as if it is floating. The building should blend in with the surroundings and biodiversity will play an important role. The reception building will not only be on a jetty at the pond, it will also have to enter into a 'dialogue' with the two well-known existing heritage buildings. In order to be able to create a natural clear fish pond, the carp will also be removed. Everything should be ready by the autumn of 2024. The building and the pond adjustments are just a few changes to the whole. For example, the avenue will be redesigned, the playground will be reorganised, the Kelsbeek will be partly relocated, the canal will be opened up to make water more visible, and so on. Info at https://www.limburg.be/Limburg/bouwt/Sites/Nieuwenhoven

Two small pieces. East to the bird hide and west another tiny path before you come around and reach the main road.