アルケン周辺のアトラクション＆必見スポット - トップ20

この透明な教会は、「Reading Between the Lines」という適切な名前が付けられており、PITによる芸術作品で、建築デュオのGijs Van Vaerenberghによって設計されました。それは教会の衰退を象徴しています。高さ10メートルの芸術作品は、Loonにある教会の形をした100枚の積層された鋼板で構成されています。ユニークな構造のおかげで、美しいHaspengouwの風景が教会の向こうにも見えます。2012年、この透明な教会は、著名なウェブサイトArchDailyから「Building of the Year」賞を受賞しました。ベルギーのプロジェクトがこの栄誉を受けたのは初めてでした。この息をのむようなパノラマの景色を楽しんでください。

水上自転車道は、長さ212メートル、幅3メートルのコンクリート道で、両側には目の高さの水面が広がっています。白鳥やその他の水鳥が岸辺を泳ぎ、サイクリストを好奇心を持って眺めています。オープン以来、このユニークな自転車道への関心は非常に高まっています。平均して1日あたり800人の訪問者がリンブルフの自転車ネットワークのこの忘れられない部分を探索しており、土曜日と日曜日のピーク時には、一部の日には5,000人ものサイクリストが訪れます。

The Herkenrode Abbey site is an interesting combination of culture, history, nature and an ideal starting point for walks.

Beautiful to walk through with all those young blossoms.

When you are in the church, you can admire the beautiful hilly landscape through the 'walls'. In the distance you can see the church of Borgloon. Many photographers also take a photo where you can see the church of Borgloon through the see-through church. You have this view from a certain spot in the meadow.

You don't see many high-stem orchards anymore, everyone already saw the plantations with smaller fruit trees. So there are initiatives here and there to preserve them. Various places in Limburg that are visited by hikers have pieces of high-stem orchard. The best known is perhaps that of Alden Biesen, where many tourists and hikers come. But here too, along the paths with crowd pullers (the see-through church and so on) there are. Like here in Grootloon where there is a path that takes you to the church. The management is done by local farmers with Natuurpunt. And in addition to the high-stem orchard preservation, there is also attention for the night owl and the dormouse, as the information boards here tell you.

The main entrance to the abbey is located to the south of the complex. It is a late Gothic gatehouse, built in 1531 by order of Abbess Mechtildis of Lechy. There are two storeys under two intersecting slate saddle roofs with a spire with a pear-shaped crowning at the intersection, dated 1531 (coat of arms on the rear facade) and restored in 1907 (architect G. Rypens) and 1973. Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Herkenrode Abbey, https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/22246

The Herkenrode abbey site is located in the Demer valley, in a transitional area between the Lage Kempen and Haspengouw, south of the village centre of Stokrooi (Hasselt). It is an extensive historical domain that dates back to the former abbey complex of the Cistercian nuns. To the north of the Demer are the meadows, to the south the old abbey with its appurtenances, the farmyard, the eastern castle park and the other, higher agricultural lands. In addition to unirrigated hay and pasture land, there were also large flood meadows here until the 20th century. The latter were supplied with water via the Tuilterdemer. The abbey was founded in 1182, when Geeraard, Count of Loon, donated his estate Herkenrode to a certain brother Henricus to build a monastery for women. In 1271 the monastic community joined the order of Cîteaux. It became a flourishing enterprise that over the years acquired numerous possessions. The religious purpose came to an end with the departure of the sisters in 1796. At the beginning of the 19th century, the new abbess wing, built in 1768 to the south of the old abbess quarters, was converted into a castle. In the same period, an English garden was laid out on the east side and a front garden on the west side. The 14th-century church burned down in 1826 and was demolished together with the monastery building and the convent buildings in 1843. The buildings and the surrounding grounds formed a single differentiated whole for a long time. Over time, however, they fell into the hands of different owners. In 1972, 11 ha of the former abbey site became the property of the canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre. The property includes the actual remaining abbey buildings with the sisters' quarters, the old abbess quarters, the sacristy, the infirmary, the 18th-century abbess wing and the adjoining landscaped park. Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Herkenrode Abbey Site, https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/135252