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Haarterheide Tour

Haarterheide

Cross-border walking tour through the valley of the Warmbeek, the Haarterheide and the Groote Heide on the Dutch side of the border. A walking tour that goes along a stream, through woods and over heathland.

Distance: 17 km.

Time: 4h00.

Grade: Moderate.

Type: Circular.

Gps Track: Yes.

Route description: Yes.

Wheelchair: Not suitable.

Dog: Allowed.

Height gain: Flat.

Trail: 95% unpaved.

Marking: See PDF route desciption.

Hiking shoes recommended.

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Valley of the Warmbeek.

During your walk you will come across historic buildings or remnants of them in various places, such as Het Mulke, the remainder of the Waag, a Laathoeve, the remains of a border chapel consisting of a cross and the Achelse Kluis monastery. Furthermore, in two places you pass the death wire that recalls the Great War (WWI) and three burial mounds from the distant past. In the valley of the Warmbeek, the stream de Warmbeek is followed with a remainder of the last watermill in the country of Grevenbroek at the stream Mulke. The water mill was one of the Grevenbroek mills or ban mills of lord van Grevenbroek. The Waag, of which only the foundations remain, was a building founded in 1772 where the farmers in the area were obliged to have their grain weighed, after which the grain was ground on one of the ban mills. Laathoeve Beverbeek or Cijnshoeve was a farm where justice was administered in disputes between the late and the lord and the place where the late had to give up part of his harvest. The Achelse Kluis, this abbey is known for the Trappist beer Achel of the same name, which has been brewed in its own brewery since 1998. The Haarterheide burial mounds date from the Middle and Late Bronze Age (about 1800-800 BC). The Death Wire is a reconstruction that accurately reflects what the formidable barrier on the border with the Netherlands looked like during the Great War (WWI).

Haarterheide

Download PDf for route description.

Map & Poi's.