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Cycle path through the forest – Achelse Kluis Abbey loop from Asten

Cycle path through the forest – Achelse Kluis Abbey loop from Asten

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Cycle path through the forest – Achelse Kluis Abbey loop from Asten

02:34

57.9km

60m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: April 23, 2026

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16.4 km

Path Through the Heather

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Nice winding path with some sharp bends. Good for interval training or just to enjoy the heath and forest. Be careful though, the path is narrow and it can sometimes be crowded on weekends. So if you want to speed up, you better avoid the sunny Sundays.

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17.0 km

Cycle path through the forest

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Cycle path winding through the forest and heath over beautiful new asphalt

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25.5 km

Dallas Heath Path

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Beautiful forest that turns into heaths and fields. Good trails

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26.5 km

Grote Heide and Leenderbos

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Very nice cycling in this heathland area, both paved and hardpack gravel!

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27.6 km

Wire of Death

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"Death thread" at the time of WW I at the Achelse Kluis

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27.7 km

Achelse Kluis Abbey

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The Achelse Kluis is a real highlight. Hermits lived here in the 17th century and cleared the sandy soil. In 1846 the Westmalle Trappists founded a new settlement here, following the strict rules of the Cistercians: prayer, study and silence.
In 1850, King Leopold I granted Achelse Kluis a brewing license. During the First World War, the German occupying forces confiscated the brewery. As a result, beer was no longer brewed until 1998. With the help and knowledge of the Trappist Abbeys of Rochefort, Westmalle and Westvleteren, the abbey then began to brew again.

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27.8 km

Belgian–Dutch border at Achelse Kluis

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Fun and photogenic way to depict the Belgian-Dutch border just north of Achelse Kluis Abbey. At the height of this graphic border there are also remnants of the death wire... a deadly border work that dates from the First World War.

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31.8 km

The Wire of Death

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Death Wire, a horror along the border.

Death Wire, silent witness to German means of destruction
This is a 200-metre-long reconstruction of the Death Wire that was constructed by the Germans in the summer of 1916 to prevent ‘unwanted border traffic’ between neutral Netherlands and occupied Belgium. Unwanted traffic includes: deserting soldiers, even young patriots who wanted to volunteer for the Belgian army, spies, letter and other smugglers, ordinary citizens who could no longer cope with the occupation mentally and physically.

The first electric wire barrier had already existed earlier, halfway through 1915, south of the then separate municipalities of Hamont and Achel. As a result, the municipalities found themselves in a kind of no-man’s land. Until the summer of 1916, that is, when the German occupier put a stop to it. The Death Wire ran from the Drielandenpunt in Vaals to the Belgian coast. You can imagine the terrible scenes that took place here. On the strip near Hamont-Achel, 17 people are said to have died at this Wire.

Figures are known that over the entire length of this ‘border’ there must have been more than 1,000 victims, most of them ordinary citizens. It sounds improbable, but many more thousands, reportedly even 20,000 people, managed to get through the barrier unscathed. For example, a rubber framework was used to get through safely, and some even managed to jump to the Netherlands with … a pole.

The barrier was guarded by older, sometimes injured German soldiers.

Ingenious construction:
The construction usually consisted of 5 or 7 rows of iron wire on wooden poles of up to 2 metres high. There was an opening of about 30 centimetres between the wires. The bottom wire was stretched 25 centimetres above the ground. There were three rows next to each other, the outer ones served as a deterrent. On the middle row were porcelain pots that served as insulators. On the wire was a high voltage of no less than 2000 volts alternating current, comparable to the impact of a lightning strike. Every 50 meters a pole provided the power supply.

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57.9 km

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Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

40.8 km

14.8 km

1.81 km

534 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

31.3 km

21.4 km

4.64 km

534 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Monday 13 July

31°C

18°C

11 %

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Cycle path through the forest – Achelse Kluis Abbey loop from Asten

Path Through the Heather

Cycle path through the forest

Dallas Heath Path

Grote Heide and Leenderbos

Wire of Death

Achelse Kluis Abbey

Belgian–Dutch border at Achelse Kluis

The Wire of Death

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