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Bokrijklaan has been the main entrance to the Bokrijk estate for centuries. This avenue connects the surrounding landscape with the castle and the estate and was deliberately designed as a straight line and connecting axis typical of historic estates. Those who walk or cycle here are essentially following in the footsteps of generations of visitors, residents, and workers who entered the estate via this route. The avenue is characterized by rows of trees on both sides, which not only give structure to the landscape but also provide shelter and rhythm. Throughout the seasons, the character of Bokrijklaan changes: fresh green in spring, cool and shady in summer, warm colors in autumn, and understated yet powerful in winter.

From Bokrijklaan you can not only reach the open-air museum, but also the starting point of the cycling and hiking trails into the De Wijers nature reserve, where the famous section “Fietsen door het Water” is located.

Nice to walk through.

Beautiful avenue for walking.

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.

The history of Bokrijk goes back to the thirteenth century when the Count of Loon sold the forest ‘Buscurake’ to the sisters of the abbey of Herkenrode who had a model farm built there. The castle was only built in 1891 by Edgard Maris, a rentier from Hasselt. He had bought the entire Bokrijk estate from the Coghen family in 1889. Maris had a castle built in the Maasland neo-Renaissance style on the site where the old manor farm stood. However, Maris got into financial difficulties and three years later the estate came into the hands of Count Ferdinand de Meeûs, who expanded the castle with a right wing and chapel and laid out the park with roads and avenues. The Count died in 1916 and his family sold the estate to Jewish brokers from Germany. After the liberation, in 1918, the estate was seized. It was not until 1928 that the Boerenbond became the owner and sold the domain to the provincial government of Limburg in 1938. In the fifties, the province decided to set up an open-air museum of rural and urban living and living culture through the centuries, which opened in 1958. In 2008, the castle was renovated again and made suitable for conference rooms, equipped with modern communication means and equipment. (Along castles and fortresses)

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.