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일요일 오후에 이곳에 산책하러 왔을 때 할아버지 할머니를 떠올리게 하고, 그들이 예전에 살았던 - 아마도 더 힘들었지만 훨씬 더 단순했던 - 삶을 생각나게 합니다. 정말 생각하게 만드는군요...

In 1154, Count Lodewijk I of Loon granted the area to the Norbertines of Averbode Abbey. Manuscripts from that period also referred to the estate as Bolderberg Winning and Laethof. A square farm was built here in the Haspengouw style. During the French Revolution, the wining came into the hands of private families. Initially, Paul Hermans became the owner, and later it passed to the Jacobs family. In 1849, Johanna Jacobs married Joseph Bovy, who became governor of Limburg in 1872 and died in 1879. Thus, the estate acquired the name Goed van Bovy, or the little castle. In 1972, the municipality of Zolder acquired the estate, and from 1975 to 1984 it was renovated and made suitable for recreation. The estate features woods, lawns, and ponds, and there is a restaurant at the entrance. This is located in a farm complex that was restored from 1975 to 1983. It's an 18th-century house with a stable, a 17th-century Kempen cross-barn, and several 19th-century service buildings, all of half-timbered construction. The original herb garden has been restored, and there's also an apiary. For children, there's a playground and a walking trail. The boardwalk over the marsh pond leads to the fishpond and offers beautiful views of the historic buildings. A diverse nature reserve surrounds the marsh pond. Signposted walking trails have been laid out on the estate. In addition, five walking trails, ranging from 5 to 10 kilometers, begin here, exploring the area surrounding the estate. The GR5 long-distance hiking trail also passes through the estate.

The summit of the Bolderberg has been awarded the "2-star landscape spot." Imagine yourself standing by the sea. Millions of years ago, it was! The Bolderberg, a "heritage hill," was once a sandbank left behind after the sea retreated. At 60 meters, the summit of the Bolderberg is among the highest peaks in Limburg. The Bolderberg is located in the Wijers region, where you'll find more than 1,000 ponds! These are fed by the Echelbeek and Laambeek streams. They make the region a valuable nature reserve for numerous bird species and other animals. From the star-studded spot, you can look out over the ponds and Terlaemen Castle. These ponds were created around the 13th century by the mining of iron sandstone. Later, they were used as fish breeding ponds by the abbeys of Herkenrode and Averbode.

@jeroen driesen: It's because of this behavior from you cyclists that we keep hearing about "cycling terrorists." The Heusden-Zolder slag heap is a protected nature reserve, and if cycling is prohibited there, there's a good reason for it, and you shouldn't be disrupting nature there!

Nicely refreshed with fun bits for the younger ones among us. With landscape elements that tree frogs love around it—and also people, as you can see when the blackberries are ripe.

On the Bovy estate itself, there are three short themed walks for the whole family (preferably with kids). You can see them on the information board (see photos): a 1.7-kilometer "blue" walk called "Find Martin the Kingfisher," a 1-kilometer "red" walk called "The Hare Path," and the 2-kilometer "green" Wildplukpad (Wild Picking Trail).

For those who haven't been to the Bovy Domain in a while (or not yet), it reopened in September 2024 after a somewhat delayed renovation as the first gateway to the De Wijers nature reserve. You can read about this at https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/09/20/domein-bovy-klaar/ and see it in more and more recent photos.

Witness hill The Bolderberg and especially its origins were the subject of heated discussions within the geological community for more than a hundred years, but its geological history is now well known. Today, this hill is the reference or type location for what is known in stratigraphy (the study of the succession of the earth's layers) as the Bolderberg Formation. It consists of yellow to white very fine sand, mainly composed of quartz grains. When the sun reflects in the sand, thin flakes, mica sheets, light up. Fossil shells also occur in the sand in various places. All these sediments were deposited in a shallow sea about 20 million years ago. The first descriptions of the geological structure of the Bolderberg date from the second half of the 19th century. André Dumont Sr., the author of the first detailed geological map of Belgium, defined his Système Boldérien there. The bulk of the hill belongs to this Système Boldérien or the current Formation of Bolderberg. The top of the hill, separated from the underlying Sand of Bolderberg by a gravel of black and blue flint pebbles, is formed by the Sand of Diest. Typical for this 10 million year old sand package is the rusty brown color and the presence of iron sandstone banks, formerly frequently used as building stone in many important buildings. These iron sandstone banks are the weathering product of minuscule dark green round glauconite grains that occur in the sand. It is probably the cap of resistant rusty iron sandstone that has ensured that the underlying sand has not been washed away and the Bolderberg has remained as a witness hill. Source: https://www.hbvl.be/regio/limburg/heusden-zolder/de-bolderberg-belangrijk-limburgs-geologisch-erfgoed/32387063.html