The 'Yourcenarpad' has led you up to here. The name of this path refers to the writer Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987). After all, her internationally known novel 'The Hermetic Black' is partly set in the dunes near the Zwin, more specifically in the 16th century when the landscape here looked very different. Until the end of the 19th century, this dune, forest and meadow area was still in constant evolution due to the influence of the sea. It looked like today's Zwin with mudflats, salt marshes and gullies that alternated and a belt of dunes on the sea side.
The dunes we are on now date from the middle of the 19th century. 'The Zwin dunes and polders' took its current form when the International Dike was built in 1872-1873 and the area was thus closed off from the sea. In 'The Hermetic Black' the tragic fate of the physician, alchemist and philosopher Zeno is described. The nature restoration project 'ZENO' (Zwinduinen Ecological Nature Development) that took place here in the period 2006-2010 took its name from this main character.
Source: Agentschap Natuur en Bos
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