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Nice ride next to the small nete canal

Is just a fantastic ride! Small and narrow roads with little traffic (cars). Few cycle paths. Great cycling!

Het Zwart Water is a nature reserve southwest of the town of Lichtaart, which is part of the Antwerp municipality of Kasterlee, located near Lavendelweg 1-3. The area is managed by the Agency for Nature and Forests. The area is located on the Kempense Heuvelrug and consists of a fen that used to be in a drifting sand and heathland area, but was largely forested with conifers during the 19th century. On the edge of the fen you will find bog myrtle thickets, willow swamp forest and poor grassland. There is a floating dome in the fen that forms a safe resting place for birds. The forest is gradually being transformed into more mixed forest. In addition, there are remnants of heathland.

The Antitankgracht was constructed just before the Second World War to stop German tanks. Fortunately, that is no longer necessary today, but it does provide us with a nice location to cycle through.

Very nice walk, wooden bridges over marshy to waterland. beautiful area!

A beautiful walking area with well-maintained paths. With binoculars you can watch the antics of the water birds

A really beautiful fen in a quiet area

Here you are standing on a historical location that was part of the Antwerp Defence Line WWII. Historical explanation: The anti-tank ditch is a 33 km long defensive ditch northeast of Antwerp, between the Scheldt and the Albert Canal. The ditch was constructed between 1938-1940 as part of the Antwerp fortress. In the 1930s, the Belgian army reoriented the fortress to a defence for infantry (strongholds) and machine gun companies. The military added the anti-tank ditch and bunker lines (KW line) to the existing defence by forts and redoubts. The aim was to stop tanks. Therefore, the anti-tank ditch had to have a slope, depth and width that a tank of that time could not exceed: a bottom of at least six metres wide a width of 18m at the water surface a depth of at least three metres a minimum water level of two metres slopes of 45° Originally, the Anti-tank Ditch was to be a dry ditch, but because it filled up with water, it was forced to be converted into a wet ditch. The route had to bridge a height difference of approximately 3 to 18.5m (DTM). Therefore, it was divided into 45 sections with locks. A gate in the lock regulated the water flow and thus kept the level at the right level. The water came partly from seepage water or local streams and partly from the Meuse, supplied via the Dessel-Schoten canal. Because control over the water levels was so important, each lock was defended by a bunker. The bunkers at the Antitankgracht consist of lock bunkers with flanking daughter bunkers and flanking bunkers. The lock bunkers are elongated freestanding bunkers with a large blind wall, camouflaged by ‘eggs’ and were usually equipped for two machine guns.