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Heusden

Lake View Near Oosterplas – Drongelens Canal loop from Drunen

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Bike touring routes & trails

Netherlands

North Brabant

Heusden

Lake View Near Oosterplas – Drongelens Canal loop from Drunen

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Lake View Near Oosterplas – Drongelens Canal loop from Drunen

00:57

16.7km

20m

Cycling

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: June 27, 2026

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quiet and natural

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Sand Dunes of Loonse en Drunense Duinen

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In the Loonse and Drunense Duinen you will find forests, heathland and, above all, a lot of sand. It is one of the largest drifting sand areas in Western Europe. The wind can blow undisturbed in many places, creating an ever-changing landscape. By purchasing it in 1921, it has been protected for 100 years and we can still enjoy this Brabant Sahara.

Knowing more? Click through to natuurmonumenten.nl/natuurgebieden/nationaal-park-loonse-en-drunense-duinen

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Liberation route: crowds in the dunes

Highlight • Historical Site

Busy in the dunes
Hundreds of Scottish soldiers gather around a small farm in the middle of the dunes at the end of 1944. Apparently this is an important place. But why exactly?

A real hustle and bustle
On the morning of Saturday 4 November 1944, Hoeve De Klinkert forms the heart of a range of activities. To start with, the café serves as the headquarters of the 152nd Brigade, which must liberate the western part of the current municipality of Heusden with its three battalions. But one of those battalions, the 5th Seaforth Highlanders, has also temporarily set up its headquarters there. At least as important is the arrival around noon of all kinds of heavy trucks that just fit on the narrow forest roads.

The engineers
They have bridge-building material with them. When the first phase of Operation Guy Fawkes is successful and Scottish foot soldiers, the infantry, are on the other side of the Channel, bridges must be built as quickly as possible so that tanks, guns and all other equipment can follow. For this purpose, the Allies used so-called Bailey bridges, named after the English engineer Donald Bailey. Such a bridge consisted of separate parts that could be put together in different compositions. An average Bailey bridge of 25 meters could be assembled by 40 men in three hours. Usually the job took longer.

Hard work
That afternoon, the first parts of a Class 40 bridge are assembled at De Klinkert. This designation indicates that the bridge can carry up to 40 tons. The colossus is built by the 280th Field Company. This is a unit of approximately 250 men. All their vehicles, and there are more than fifty of them, are parked around the farm. As soon as the infantry has a bridgehead over the drainage canal from 's-Hertogenbosch to Drongelen at the end of the afternoon, their work at the Duinweg begins. Further on, other units build three more Bailey bridges that night. It is now half past seven and pitch dark. In order not to make the enemy any wiser, only a few lamps are at the engineers' side. First, a bulldozer removes a section of the dike so that the bridge is a bit lower. Then the construction itself begins. It is not until the next morning that the bridge can be used by traffic. Sweaty, but satisfied, Major Clayton's men watch the first tanks disappear in the morning twilight in the direction of Drunen, over the new bridge, codenamed Wheat.

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