Newnut

A landscape and its inhabitants are the result of their past. This certainly applies to the village of Nieuwmoer. Where above the Moerdijk people talk about peat, in Flanders, Brabant and Zeeland people traditionally speak of moer. As northerners, we would call it the new peat. We won't be surprised if Gilbert van Schoonbeke got his peat here as well. It was a very large area, roughly in the triangle Antwerp - Geertruidenberg - Willemstad. Peat has been extracted for almost 5 centuries, which was mainly transported via Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal. The search for fuel ended in Nieuwmoer in 1743 when Breda received the last peat from the Maatjes near Nieuwmoer. In front of café Den Turfsteker near the church is a nice statue of a peat cutter.

De Wandelmaker