The Moretusbos is a forest and former estate west of the North Brabant village of Putte. It is 77 hectares in size and owned by the Forestry Commission. It contains a star forest, all kinds of dikes and a water feature. The eighteenth-century gloriëtte in the forest is a national monument.
The forest, which continues in the Ravenhof estate in Stabroek, was originally a heathland. It belonged to the Moretus family, of which the famous Antwerp printer Jan Moretus was a descendant. One of the owners, Johannes Josephus Moretus, had a Baroque-style pleasure ground built there between 1760 and 1780. The residents of Putte were involved in this and were paid for this, which was an important source of income in the impoverished village. Since the Belgian independence of 1830, Ravenhof and the Moretus forest have been separated from each other by the national border.
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