Lendrik Chapel

You walk on your left next to a football field, while on the right you see the steep edge of the actual park. You follow the football field to the end. You go through the gate to turn right. For a moment you follow the road to the left and at the next fork you follow as sharply as possible to the right. You follow the paved path in the left bend. You have already climbed a respectable number of meters if you continue your way on the left, in front of an iron fence. The most difficult part of the walk is already behind us, because from now on there are no such steep slopes. The path bends down to the Lendrik Chapel. In 2007, a number of trees were cut down here to open up the view from the farm (on the other side of the valley) to the church of Our Lady of Good Hope. Just before the chapel turn right and then continue on the right at the fork. After about a hundred meters you come to a five-jump, where you take the third path that bends to the left. On the right, between the trees, the contours of a residential area are drawn. On the left you notice some thick elms that so far apparently successfully resist the olmen disease.

Olm disease
For many years, this disease has been raging in large parts of Western Europe, affecting the elm in large numbers. The culprit is a fungus (Ophiostoma novo-ulmi) that is transmitted from tree to tree by root contact and the elm weevil. The latter lays eggs in self-dug corridors in the trunks. If the larvae pupate into adult insects, they fly to another tree to eat on the leaf buds and infect them with the fungus.
To isolate the fungal infection, the tree produces a kind of resin with which it seals the affected wood barrels. The sap flow stops, the tree suffocates, and the leaves fall from the tree. Eventually, the entire tree dies.

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