Helenaveen is a village in the high moor area of the Peel, located in the southeast of the municipality of Deurne, in the Dutch province of North Brabant.
Helenaveen was founded in 1853 by the 's-Hertogenbosch supervisor of Water Management Jan van de Griendt, whose wife was named Helena Panis. Together with his brother Nicolaas van de Griendt and G.W.J. Carp from Arnhem, he purchased 610 hectares of peat land, which was 3-7 meters thick in this area. The Helenaveen Company had a private canal, the Helenavaart, dug. The black peat that was extracted here could be transported along it to the Noordervaart. Later, peat litter was also produced, and the concession was expanded. There was even a floating peat litter factory in Helenaveen. The peat litter was exported throughout Europe and served as a replacement for straw in the stables of the army and tram in London and Paris.
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Address: Deurne,Helenaveen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
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