The hike starts on quiet agricultural roads through agricultural and forest areas in the brook valley of the Rovertsche Leij to the chapel of Rovert. The route continues parallel to the Dutch border and returns through the woods of Molenheide. The last part you walk along the meandering Rovertsche Leij.
Distance: 13 km.
Time: 3h00.
Grade: Moderate.
Type: Circular.
Gps Track: Yes.
Route description: Yes.
Wheelchair: Not suitable.
Dog: Allowed.
Height gain: Flat.
Trail: 65% unpaved.
Marking: Walking nodes.
Hiking shoes recommended.
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Rovertsche Leij and Molenheide.
You leave the former town hall of Poppel and walk on traffic-calmed agricultural roads along fields and forests in the direction of the chapel van Rovert from 1735. There are several picnic benches here. The route continues on a wide dirt road that runs parallel to the Dutch border. Here you will certainly see traces of deer. Just before the Tilburgseweg you turn around and walk through the quiet woods of Molenheide. At first on wider forest paths, but then you follow a narrow winding forest path until you come back to a more open landscape. On a traffic-calmed paved road you go in the direction of the Rovertsche Leij. The path follows this beautiful meandering brook for a while. Along the edge of a meadow and a piece of paved road you come back to node 25 to walk back to the starting point.
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POI 1 - Rovert Chapel.
From 1643 to just after 1672, a border church for the residents of Hilvarenbeek was located on the site of the chapel. The story goes that on October 13, 1735, a theft took place in the Valentinus Church in Poppel, whereby the consecrated hosts and relics were stolen. The population wanted all this back and divided themselves into groups that scanned the area. Eventually it was found that the ground had been digged into the ground on the site of the former border church. When they started digging here, the hosts were found undamaged. The name Rovert has nothing to do with the miscreants who stole the hosts, but is a contraction of red, meaning cleared place in the forest, and voorde, meaning ford in a brook.
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